Ferne McCann's ex 'injected with steroids in jail' after major police probe

Ferne McCann's ex, Arthur Collins, is serving a 20-year sentence for hurling acid inside a London nightclub - leaving 16 people with chemical burns and three temporarily blinded
Ferne McCann's ex, Arthur Collins, has been caught getting a suspected steroid injection in jail, according to reports. The 32-year-old, who shares daughter Sunday, six, with TOWIE star, Ferne, 34, is serving a 20-year sentence for hurling acid inside a London nightclub - leaving 16 people with chemical burns and three temporarily blinded.
This week, the Mirror reported that Collins has been moved to a tougher jail after being probed over fears he was plotting to smuggle drugs into Cat C HMP The Mount using drones. In a video published yesterday - reportedly taken from The Mount on a phone smuggled into his cell - the dad-of-one can be seen with his top off, wearing a pair of tracksuit bottoms and appears to receive a jab in his buttock from another prisoner.
In the clip from The Sun, Collins is asked: 'Hey, bruv, what are you doing?' by a fellow lag before replying: 'Injecting.' The exchange shows Collins laughing, apparently receiving the injection as his pal jokes: "You think you're big or what?"
Collins could face disciplinary action after the body-building drug was seemingly sneaked into the jail, along with a handset used to record footage in his cell.
The former scaffolder was recently switched from The Mount Prison — where the footage was taken — amid fears he was plotting to import drugs using drones.
Claiming the criminal is 'constantly in trouble,' a source said: 'Collins has been in trouble constantly and doesn't seem to care. He goes around like he is the big 'I am' and as if he rules the roost.'
Prison chiefs launched an investigation over suspicions that dealers were flooding the Mount with drugs using drones. Concerns were raised that Collins had masterminded the plot in the Herts prison. No police investigation was carried out, but the Mirror revealed that Fern's ex has been moved to a tougher jail.
A source told us: "Collins has been at the centre of a major internal prison investigation. There were fears drug dealers had been using drones to flood HMP The Mount with drugs. It's a huge worry that tens of thousands of pounds worth of drugs were going to make their way into the jail.
"The police have not been called in as it has been dealt with internally. Collins has now been moved to another prison, which is a lot stricter."
Collins launched his acid attack on a packed dance floor at Mangle nightclub in Dalston, East London, during an Easter weekend night out in April 2017.
He had claimed he threw the substance by mistake after hearing a group of men plotting to spike a woman's drink.
The court heard that he picked up a container that he thought was a date rape drug and threw it away. But a jury found him guilty of carrying out the acid attack that left clubbers in agony and sparked a panicked evacuation and a massive emergency response.
He was convicted of five counts of grievous bodily harm with intent and nine of actual bodily harm.

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