An Albanian gangster who is serving 25 years in jail has mocked the level of security by posting a picture of himself in his cell on social media.
Tristen Asllani, who is serving a sentence for drug and firearm offences, posed in his cell at Wandsworth prison, southwest London, for a photograph that was uploaded to an Instagram account called My Albanian in Jail. The image, taken on an illegal mobile phone, was captioned: “Even inside the prison we have all conditions, what’s missing are only whores.”
Asllani, 29, was jailed in August 2016 after crashing a car into a shop in Crouch End, north London, while trying to escape from officers who had seen him dealing drugs. Police found 21kg of cocaine in the car and later found a Skorpion sub-machinegun with silencer and £6 million of drugs in his flat.
Renaz Ameen, 31, who was working in the shop at the time and narrowly escaped injury, was angry at the images. “They need to deport him to an Albanian prison, which would hopefully be rougher on him than prison here,” she said, adding that he looked like he had “been in the gym the whole time” and was having fun.
The Prison Service said: “This behaviour is completely unacceptable and we have removed the content from social media. Those who break prison rules will face tough punishments, including extra time behind bars.”
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Asllani is one of 716 Albanians who were in jails in England and Wales at the end of last year. Britain signed a compulsory prisoner transfer agreement with Albania in 2012, meaning that prisoners serving more than four years could be sent home to serve their sentence. Only 17 Albanians have been sent back. Britain would not deport Asllani to Albania without an assurance that he would serve his sentence there.