A South Coast Correctional Centre inmate caught trying to smuggle drugs into the jail in his anus, claims he carried out his actions under duress.
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Darko Delovski, 38, was coming to the end of his jail term and had been allowed out on day release but claims pressure had been put on him to bring drugs back into the jail upon his return.
Delovski was found with five separate packages hidden in his bottom, containing a variety of drugs including quetiapine, buprenorphine, methylamphetamine (ice) and tobacco.
Court papers revealed Delovski had been serving a six year term, with a non-parole period of four years, for commercial drug supply in 2011.
As he was coming to the end of his sentence he was given permission to undertake unsupervised day release.
During his release in early August corrections officers at the South Nowra Jail received information Delovski might be carrying something on his return.
Officers placed him in a “dry cell”, an isolation area, and informed him he would be taken to Shoalhaven Hospital to have an X-ray to see if he was attempting to smuggle anything into the jail.
Delovski removed five, heavily taped condoms from his anus, telling officers he was “under duress” and “was obliged to do so”.
Court papers said Delovski had the drugs hidden in balloons, covered by condoms.
He had 36 quetiapine tables, also marketed as seroquel, an antipsychotic used for the treatment of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorders.
He had 19 buprenorphine tablets, also named subutex, an opioid used to treat opioid addiction, moderate acute pain and moderate chronic pain as well as 1.8 grams of meth and a quantity of tobacco.
Delovski was charged with attempting to bring a thing into a place of detention, two counts of bringing a proscribed poison into a detention centre and bringing a small quantity of drugs into a detention centre.
In Nowra Local Court Magistrate Susan McGowan placed Delovski on a 12-month good behaviour bond.