A convicted paedophile has complained from behind bars that prison guards have ‘lost’ his teddy bear.
Shane Medhurst was jailed for 25 years last June after being found guilty of 14 counts of child sex abuse.
Among the charges included two counts of sexually assaulting a child under the age of 13.
Medhurst, 58, was jailed at Reading Crown Court, and is currently serving his sentence at the 1,100-capacity HMP High Down jail in Surrey.
The jail has two dedicated wings sex offenders, with around 400 inmates convicted of sex offences.
Writing in the latest edition of prisoner publication Inside Time, Medhurst said he was really ‘into arts and crafts’ and had started making his own teddy bears.
One in particular, which he called Mr Bear – a bright yellow bear with a blue and white striped outfit and a hat – was his ‘favourite’ and had taken him three weeks to make.
He said other teddies that he made had been sent to family and friends, and had loaned Mr Bear to the library inside the prison – but three weeks later he’d vanished.
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