Murderer scrolled Snapchat behind bars with ‘fearsome’ knife in his trousers – Manchester …

Rishon Florant was caught red-handed by prison officers at Strangeways jail 16:26, 14 May 2025 Updated 17:29, 14 May 2025 Rishon Florant was caught red-handed (Image: Met Police) A jailed murderer was caught with a ‘fearsome’ makeshift knife while he was scrolling Snapchat on a smuggled iPhone in his cell at Strangeways prison. Rishon Florant, 23, who is serving a minimum 18 years behind bars for a shocking fatal stabbing in a youth centre in London in 2019, was caught red-handed when prison officers searched his cell at HMP Manchester on September 5, 2023. The prison officers visited the cell after they had ‘received information’, the court heard. As they entered they saw the seated inmate brazenly scrolling a smuggled iPhone on which he ‘appeared to be accessing social media’, prosecutor William Donnelly told Manchester Crown Court today (Wednesday May 14, 2025). “He made an unsuccessful attempt to hide the phone in his clothing and volunteered possession of the knife,” said Mr Donnelly. The prisoner revealed the six-inch weapon, fashioned with sharpened aluminium beading from his cell window for the blade wrapped with cloth to form a handle, from behind the waistband of his trousers. It was a ‘fearsome weapon
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