Wandsworth prisoner Neil Moore was on remand when he used an illicit mobile phone to create a fake email account.

He posed as a senior court clerk and sent bail instructions to prison staff, who released him on 10 March 2014.

His deception was uncovered when solicitors went to interview him three days later, only to find him gone.

Moore, 28, from Ilford, east London, handed himself in three days later.

'Extraordinary inventiveness'

Southwark Crown Court heard he had set up a fake web domain which closely resembled that of the court service's official address.