Shocking moment Ferne McCann's acid attacker ex Arthur Collins is filmed being INJECTED in bum with drugs in jail cell
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TV star Ferne McCann's acid attacker ex is seen getting a suspected steroid injection in his cell.
Video of Arthur Collins, 32, taken on a smuggled phone, came as he was linked to drug drops by drone at jails in Herts and Greater Manchester.
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Ferne McCann's acid attacker ex, Arthur Collins, filmed getting a suspected steroid injection in jail
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Ferne split up with Arthur after he was arrested for a depraved acid attack
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In the clip, Collins is asked, 'Hey, bruv, what are you doing?', by a fellow prisoner — before replying: 'Injecting.'
The exchange was caught on our exclusive video, showing laughing Collins apparently receiving a jab in his buttock from another lag.
He 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.
Collins was recently switched from The Mount Prison — where the footage was taken — amid fears he was plotting to import drugs using drones.
And it comes after a jail anti-corruption team found illicit items at his new home — HMP Buckley Hall, near Rochdale.
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.'
His actions will sicken the 22 victims of his 2017 attack when he hurled acid across in an East London nightclub — leaving 16 people with serious burns.
Collins, who described himself as a businessman and scaffolder is serving a 20-year term imposed at Wood Green crown court after he admitted GBH with intent and nine counts of ABH.
He had eight months added to his sentence in 2018 for smuggling in a phone which he used to call Dancing on Ice star Ferne, 34.
She had been pregnant with their daughter, now aged seven, when he was jailed.
The injection video shows Collins leaning over while another con jabs him.
Ferne McCann facing fresh backlash after new voicemail leaked about Arthur Collins' acid attack victim
He is also holding hands with another inmate to help stop him recoiling in pain.
One of the prisoners asks him: 'Hey, bruv, what are you doing?'
Collins replies: 'Injecting.'
Collins has been in trouble constantly and doesn't seem to care
A source
A second short video features Collins — topless and in Nike tracksuit bottoms — flexing his muscles to show off the fruits of his fitness regime.
One of his jail pals says to Collins: 'Show me. Do you think you're big?' Collins tenses his muscles and replies: 'Am I?'
Both videos were shot at Category C prison The Mount, in Bovingdon, Herts.
Our source said: 'Collins has been in trouble constantly and doesn't seem to care.
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Tight grip with fellow lag helps stop Collins recoiling in pain
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Prisoner administers jab to Collins in his cell
'He has been linked to drone deliveries and drugs at both the jails he has been at.
'These videos show him having the injections, which he was doing quite regularly, as well as being filmed on a phone. He should face disciplinary action over the videos, as they were shot in his cell on a smuggled handset.
'But he has now been moved — and already got into trouble at his new jail.
He seems cocky and like he is having a laugh with his mates inside, rather than being punished
A source
'They thought he was behind drone deliveries at The Mount, and he has been suspected of helping to bringing in and possession of steroids, spice and weed.
'He is constantly in bother and keeps having to move jails because of it. He is mixing with the wrong people and getting involved in all sorts inside.
'As these videos show, he spends a lot of time at the gym and is proud of his progress, although he was using steroids to help him.
'That is what he is doing in the video, and loads of steroids get smuggled into jails. He is a lot slimmer than he was and is proud of being quite shredded, and he is physically strong
'But it would be pretty sickening for any of his victims to see this.
'He seems cocky and like he is having a laugh with his mates inside, rather than being punished.'
Prison bosses at 1,001-capacity The Mount investigated Collins over smuggled drugs but did not call in police.
He was moved to Buckley Hall earlier this year.
Sources said the switch was also partly to protect Collins, as the northern jail holds fewer people likely to be linked to his victims.
They added he was hopeful of having his status lowered to Category D, which could clear him for a move to an open jail.
Collins started dating former Towie star Ferne in 2016 but she dumped him after the acid attack.
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CCTV footage from inside the club during acid attack
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She had visited him in jail and revealed she told him: 'This is the last time you will see either of us. You have ruined our lives.'
Ferne was eliminated second from the most recent series of Dancing on Ice.
She starred in ITV show My Family & Me with fiancé Lorri Haines, with whom she shares a two-year-old daughter.
We are seeing in prisons the failures of the government's pledges to crack down coming home to roost
Conservative MP Alec Shelbrooke
Her other TV credits include coming third in 2015's I'm A Celebrity.
Tory MP Alec Shelbrooke said yesterday: 'The fact that mobile phones and drugs are readily available in jails shows a breakdown at the top of the prison system, which people need to get a grip on.
'We are seeing in prisons the failures of the government's pledges to crack down coming home to roost.'
And Reform MP Lee Anderson said: 'It seems that many prisoners are committing crimes in jails with absolute impunity.
'These problems could easily be stopped. If a prisoner is caught with something like a smuggled phone or drugs they could be put in solitary for six months and have no visitors.
'If any drones are spotted on the grounds, lock down the prison for a week or two. But successive governments have turned a blind eye.'
A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: 'The availability of drugs and other illicit items in prisons is yet more evidence of the crisis this Government inherited. We have an additional invested £10million on anti-drone measures to help us seize more contraband and have a specialist team to bear down on drugs and serious and organised crime.
'We have also created restricted fly zones around prisons, and are collaborating with police to tackle the growing illegal use of drones around prisons.'
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Collins' 2017 attack, where he hurled acid across in an East London nightclub, left 16 people with serious burns
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Collins was recently switched from The Mount Prison — where the footage was taken — amid fears he was plotting to import drugs using drones
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