A MURDERER serving a life sentence has boasted from his prison cell how he will spend Christmas taking drugs and drinking booze.
Jamal Dyce, 25, was jailed for at least 12 years in 2008 for stabbing a man to death in a row over a mobile phone.
Now he has a phone of his own and boasts online about how easy life is in prison, including smoking cannabis, watching football and drinking tropical juice.
The former Croydon Harriers runner from Thornton Heath has created at least four accounts on Facebook and posted dozens of pictures of himself posing with other inmates and even with his mum.
The Advertiser has also been able to communicate with him directly in his cell via BlackBerry Messenger (BBM).
The killer – who was said to have giggled after stabbing 40-year-old Joseph Armstrong in 2006 – told our reporter that he would spend Christmas with "weed and drink", like "just another day".
When asked how he had access to drugs inside prison, he responded it was "minor" compared to getting hold of a phone.
Dyce, who is in HMP Gartree, in Leicestershire, has had access to a mobile phone since at least April 2012, but began regularly posting under the name Young Loons – in reference to his nickname Loons – in February this year.
As well as uploading pictures of himself taken in his cell and around the prison, he also posted updates on life inside.
He regularly mentions watching football – particularly BBC show Match of the Day and Champions League games involving his team Chelsea – as well as films.
On February 16, Dyce posted: "Power nap finished. Time for some crumble cream biscuits, tropical juice and watch shooter." The day before, the former Warlingham High pupil wrote: "Demolition Man #ITV4".
Despite his apparently easy life, Dyce did complain about being "insulted" by rappers who sing about jail "when they have only done a year". He appears able to use his phone because someone on the outside is buying him credit.
Dyce wrote: "I need £5 T-Mobile credit right now, so if your [sic] near a shop get me please..." A few days later he said: "I'm about to charge my communications device so I'll be back in about an hour folks. If you near a shop inbox me £5 T-Mobile please ya done know the situation."
He ended the message with his usual sign off – "#3loonsnow" – with 3 meaning 'free'.
The murderer appears to receive regular calls on his mobile.
"Whoever is trying to ring me... I'm busy still leave a message and unless its business i aint gonna get back to you," he said. "Everyone knows don't ring me off of private."
Dyce also created another Facebook account – called Young Loons Artist – under the name Ishmael Rashid, which he has assumed since becoming a Muslim while in prison.
The Advertiser informed the Ministry of Justice about that account last Thursday. A spokesman said it was "totally unacceptable" for prisoners to access social networking sites and the page was taken down by Facebook the following day.
However, Dyce had also posted the pin number for his BBM online before the page was suspended. Posing as a member of Croydon Harriers, our reporter contacted him and, over the last week, has been speaking to the murderer from his cell.
While the authorities have been informed that he has a phone, he claimed no prison officers have searched for it since the account was suspended.
Dyce was convicted alongside Curtis Henry-Seabourne, 22, but when asked about the death of Mr Armstrong he claimed the real killers were still at large.
"I got 12 to life for murder but I wouldn't snitch so I got guilty too," he said.
Asked what happened to his first Facebook page, he said: "I got a next one. The pagans shut it down. Someone reported it to the FB [Facebook] nerds."
When questioned on what Christmas was like in prison, he said: "Weed and drink, just another day. Haha." Asked how he managed to get drugs he said it was easy compared to obtaining a phone.
"I'm on a bb [BlackBerry] weed is a minor," he explained. "I buy what I need."
Dyce was still using his mobile phone as late as Monday, four days after the authorities were informed. His Facebook friends include five other inmates who appear to posting from prison.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: "The Justice Secretary has made clear that it is totally unacceptable for prisoners to access social networking sites.
"Those who break the rules will be dealt with severely, and no prisoner should be in any doubt that if they are found with a mobile phone or any other illicit items they will be stripped of their privileges and reported to the police for further action."
The Government has recently announced a crackdown on "perks" enjoyed by prisoners, such as the freedom to watch satellite football matches and 18 certificate films, saying they must do more to earn such privileges.Killer stabbed man to death, then giggled
Jamal Dyce was 17 when he stabbed a man to death in a row over a mobile phone.
Dyce, of Effingham Road, Thornton Heath, and his accomplice Curtis Henry-Seabourne, 22, from north London, were jailed for life at the Old Bailey in May 2008.
The 400 and 800 metre runner was seen as a bright prospect by Croydon Harriers, winning four gold medals at the finals of the National Junior Athletic League.
But his running career was cut short when he was stabbed in the leg while being robbed in 2006.
Dyce's victim, Joseph Armstrong, had been living in a workers' hut after his girlfriend chucked him out of her home on the Newington Green estate in Stoke Newington, north London.
A 13-year-old girl's phone had gone missing and the father of three, from Northern Ireland, was suspected of taking it. On the pretext of a drugs deal, Dyce and Henry-Seabourne lured the labourer to a stairwell on the estate on September 12, 2006. He was stabbed at least five times in the stomach, slashed and knifed in the head, and left for dead as the killers, in the prosecution's words, "scurried away" covered in his blood.
After the stabbing Dyce was heard to giggle and say: "I got him."
Dyce denied murder. He was given a life sentence and must serve at least 12 years before he can be considered for parole.
Judge Martin Stephens QC said: "That a man should lose his life in circumstances such as this should, and will, revolt the mind of any right-thinking member of society.
"This was a cold-blooded, pre-meditated murder. You continue to assert your innocence and disclose no sense of remorse for this dreadful murder."
