A Scots killer has revealed how he enjoys barista-made coffees –mochas, cappuccinos and “exotic” hot chocolates – for just 50p a mug in jail.
Writing on his blog, murderer Graham Coutts boasted about the drinks at prisoner-run coffee shop Central Perk – named after the bar in sitcom Friends – at Wakefield Prison.
The 51-year-old, from Fife, was jailed for life in 2004 after using a pair of tights to strangle classical musician Jane Longhurst, 31, at his home in Brighton, in 2003.
Coutts hid Jane’s body in a box in his shed for more than a week before moving it to a self-storage centre.
The sick murderer later took her body to a woodland in Sussex, where he set it on fire.
The killer wrote: “Now, if instant coffee or powdered chocolate is not up to your high standards you can always buy a drink from our local barista.
“Yes, that’s right – prisoners are living it up, knocking back cappuccinos, mochas and exotic chocolates.
“We can buy a barista machine coffee and other drinks, it’s only a small percentage of prisoners – it does cost 50p, after all.
"That might not sound much but have two or three of these drinks each week and a prisoner’s meagre wages very quickly deplete.
“I’m way too careful with my money to waste it on something I can make myself with my new kettle.”
Another prisoner, who was not named, said that the coffee bar added to the “positive culture within Wakefield”.
About 750 of the UK’s most dangerous prisoners are housed in the Yorkshire jail – nicknamed Monster Mansion – including Mark Bridger, who murdered five-year-old April Jones, paedophile Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins and black cab rapist John Worboys.
