PRISON governor Terry Wright has  rejected an inmate’s claims that he became hooked on heroin while in Les Nicolles.

Addict Robert Machan, 24, was sentenced to six months in prison for possession of Fentanyl, a drug often used to help wean people off heroin.

He had previously been sent to prison for 27 months in 2004 for supplying drugs and claimed in his recent case that it was during that first stint inside Les Nicolles that he became hooked on the Class A drug.

But Mr Wright said the claims were probably designed to help soften his current sentence. ‘You have to remember that advocates are there to try and get their clients as reduced a sentence as possible,’ he said. ‘In my time at Guernsey Prison, which is about 25 years, no needles have ever been found. I would say that that [Machan’s claim] was a very unlikely situation in Guernsey Prison.’