A PRISONER has been handed longer behind bars.

Lewis Georgiou was serving a sentence inside a Warrington jail when he committed the offence.

He was subsequently charged with the unauthorised possession in prison of knife or offensive weapon.

The case was heard recently before Warrington Magistrates’ Court, with prosecutor Katie Johnson explaining how the offence was committed on August 25 last year.

Georgiou was an inmate at HMP Risley serving a sentence of possession with intent to supply class A drugs.

He was caught at the Warrington Road jail with a sharpened metal knife.

The defendant admitted the charge and was handed a six-month custodial term.

This will run consecutive to the 34-month prison term he received for the drugs matters.

Magistrates deemed the matter so serious that this was the only appropriate sentence, with the court hearing how this is Georgiou’s second knife conviction.

The defendant, of Cawley Avenue in Prestwich, was also told he must pay costs to the Crown Prosecution Service of £85 and a surcharge of £154.