MURDERER Craig Rouget’s UK jail cell was raided after the Guernsey Press published a story stating that he had set up a Facebook account.

Officers found a mobile phone he had been using to gain access to the internet.

Members of the Home Department, which is responsible for the local prison service and all prisoners, contacted the Aylesbury Young Offenders’ Institute in Buckinghamshire to tell it of the apparent breach of security after the story in last Saturday’s edition.

It had highlighted the outrage felt by islanders that Rouget had seemingly been able to create a Facebook profile and write freely to friends or approach strangers on the social networking site.

Rouget is serving a minimum sentence of 12 years.

Minister Geoff Mahy said his staff had acted quickly on the information in the story to help prison staff retrieve the prohibited item.

‘The information that the Guernsey Press reported proved to be very useful in discovering that this prisoner had a mobile phone, which he should not have had,’ he said.