A secret phone possessed by a Henbury man might be for an affair but not crime, a court heard.
Police found Anthony Doherty with the Vsmart encrypted device when they visited his home in Blaisedell Road last month.
Bristol Crown Court was told Doherty was jailed for 16 years in 2011 for conspiracy to supply cocaine.
On his release in 2016 he was made the the subject of a Serious Crime Prevention Order which prohibited him having such a phone.
The married 52-year-old, who has been recalled to prison for the remaining eight years of his 16-year sentence, admitted breaching the order.
Judge Michael Cullum handed him a year's custody, to run from yesterday (March 11, 2020).
He told Doherty: "The inference is this device would be only used for the purposes of crime.
"No realistic alternative has been put before me."
The judge ordered that Doherty's £1,500 phone be forfeited.
Lucy Taylor, prosecuting, said police who visited Doherty's home saw him put the device in his bedroom table drawer.
Terms of his Serious Crime Prevention Order state he is not allowed to own more than one mobile phone and must notify the probation service of any devices.
"He may have had it for an affair"
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Rodney Wilson, defending, said: "(These phones) are produced for privacy.
"He may have had it for an affair.
"My instructions are it was not for the purposes of crime."
