Scots ■■■■■■■■■■ trucker lands call centre job in Romanian prison
■■■■■■■■■■ trucker James Connor is to work in a call centre run from a Romanian jail, selling TVs and kitchens to unsuspecting families.
The 33-year-old was sent to Isai maximum security jail in Romania for six years last February after being caught ■■■■■■■■ abusing and filming young boys in his lorry in the eastern town of Vaslui.
Connor, of Bellshill, Lanarkshire, will work in the first call centre of its type, using inmates as their workforce.
He will earn £100 a month and live with 120 other convicts on the top floor of the prison, which has been fitted with phones and PCs.
Connor’s living space will be a far cry from his current cramped conditions, in a cell with 11 other cons.
He will be sharing a comfortable room with three others, furnished with new beds, TVs and showers.
Last night, a prison insider said: “He will be paid 150 euros a month — 30 goes to the jail and 120 to Connor.
“He will have access to phones, computers and personal information about customers.
“I would have serious concerns about a child ■■■ beast having access to anything like that but the prison and the firm don’t seem that bothered.”
The firm will roll out their UK operation this month.
Open Mind VN LLC, from Focsani, 155 miles from Iasi, won the contract to use cons with sentences over five years as staff because of the country’s economic crisis.
The insider added: “It is frightening.
“You could be sitting at home in Scotland and get a call from Connor trying to sell you a kitchen or a TV and asking you to divulge all your personal details. That doesn’t bear thinking about.”
Firm owner Stelescu ÂEusebius said he was forced to start using convicts because of the credit crunch.
He added: “I had more call-centre sites in the country but I had to close some of them, just because I could not find a workforce. Also, people who are in prison deserve a chance to work.”
John Bala, head of the penitentiaries in Romania, said: “It keeps everyone happy. This is because Ârepresentatives of the state prefer prisoners to work rather than to sit in rooms.”
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