Prisoner admits having a knife in jail

A prisoner cleared of stabbing a fellow lag to death during a war over Pentonville’s drugs empire has admitted possessing a blade whilst on remand during his murder trial. Joshua Ratner, 27, was one of three inmates accused of killing Somali gang leader Jamal Mahmoud in a planned fight to establish control over the scandal-hit prison’s lucrative contraband business. He and his cell mate Robert Butler, 31, were later found not guilty of murder following an Old Bailey trial last…