Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Outrage ... 22 Wii consoles have been installed alongside Xbox and PlayStation consoles
PRISONERS are demanding a "possessed" cell be exorcised after it saw two suicides in a year.
Inmates say a previous occupant was a devil worshipper who made the cell evil. The prison chaplain at HMP Brinsford, near Wolverhampton, is now said to be considering an exorcism.
Top-security Broadmoor Hospital - home to some of Britain's most evil criminals - has installed 22 of the trendy games consoles at £180 a time.
They were fitted to plasma TVs - even though patients already had Xbox and PlayStation units.
And the Wiis are proving so popular that managers are ordering extra remote controls at £25 each, plus Wii Fit games.
A source at the Berkshire hospital told how Ripper Peter Sutcliffe played ten pin bowling - watched by Rachel Nickell's murderer Robert Napper.
The source added: "When you think of their crimes and the misery they have caused, you have to ask if it's right for society to pay to entertain them.
"This cash could have been spent improving care in the wider NHS. In the meantime all we hear is laughter as patients play with their new toys."
A Broadmoor spokesman said games were part of the patients' treatment, and Wii Fit was part of a strategy to increase exercise.