In exchange, Newell received $11,200 into his bank account in three separate deposits. "You had been, over time, approached by a prisoner or prisoners to do this," Judge Bourke said. Over the course of about two weeks in late December 2019 and early January 2020, Newell smuggled 26 pouches of tobacco, a magnet bar and two drill bits, two bodybuilding magazines and a glass pipe into prison. "You volunteered offending significantly beyond that which investigation revealed," he said. However, the judge acknowledged that, when Newell was caught, he made a full confession and pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity.
It has some sophistication and planning and exploited your position and knowledge of the prison system," Judge Michael Bourke said in sentencing. "Your offending is self-evidently a very serious breach of trust. Tobacco is banned in prison where it is traded between inmates, while the drill bits are valuable because they can be used to hide items in cells.
The bodybuilding champion was a guard at the Ravenhall Correctional Centre when he smuggled tobacco, drill bits and a glass pipe into the prison, secreting some of the items in a protein shaker. In the County Court of Victoria today, Wesley Newell, 43, was ordered to pay $40,000 and serve a two-year community-based order after pleading guilty to misconduct in public office, which carries a potential 10-year jail term.
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