A man jailed for attempting to get drugs taken into the South Nowra jail had links to the death of underworld figure, drug manufacturer and police informant Terry Falconer.
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Andrew Michael Perish, 46, pleaded guilty to being part of a criminal group and contributing to criminal activity.
Court papers said he was part of a group that included an employee at the jail which tried to introduce drugs to the South Coast Correctional Centre for financial reward and participated in a criminal group, contributing to criminal activity.
Perish was one of six people charged with trying to get a quantity of buprenorphine brought into the jail in May through to September 2015.
The plan was to bring around 200 tablets, which are also sold under the brand name Subutex, among others, into the jail.
The opioid is used to treat opioid addiction, moderate acute pain and moderate chronic pain.
A TAB account was established as a way of payment for the drugs, with two deposits totalling $2000 made.
Court papers said Perish, who was serving a prison sentence at the South Nowra jail, along with a jail employee, two other prisoners and a male and female on the “outside” were allegedly part of the plan.
All six have been charged and are facing a variety of charges.
Police investigations and surveillance led to the alleged ring being caught.
Judge Andrew Garling sentenced Perish to two years jail from August 27 this year.
Perish’s lengthy criminal record showed he had been sentenced to 12 year’s jail with a non-parole period of nine years for his role in the conspiracy to murder Falconer, whose dismembered body was found in the Hastings River near Wauchope in 2001.
Falconer was in prison but on work-day release when three men, posing as police officers, abducted him from the smash repairers he was working at in November 2001.
His dismembered body was found about a month later.
Perish appealed his sentence. In 2016 the appeal was dismissed.