Convicted drug dealer Abdul Basit caught posting Facebook selfies from ‘luxury’ jail cell

BEING locked up didn’t stop this inmate from posting cigar-smoking selfies to Facebook or collecting ‘likes’ for his Louis Vuitton drapes.

Smokin’: Abdul Basit, 37, chilling out in his jail cell.

HE posted cigar-smoking selfies and earned dozens of ‘likes’ for his Louis Vuitton drapes and shiny new PlayStation.

The trouble was, Abdul Basit was Facebook posting from his “luxury” cell at HMP Lindholme, South Yorkshire, in England’s north.

Basit was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in Bradford Crown Court last October after admitting his role in a heroin-dealing syndicate.

The court heard he took part in the existing street dealing operation to pay off thousands of pounds in his own drug debts.

But just weeks into his term, the 36-year-old managed to get his hands on a mobile phone and set up a Facebook account under the moniker “Basit Khan.”

Basit in a jailhouse. This selfie posted to Facebook

Over Christmas, he bragged of winning $A4,200 after betting on a boxing match and celebrating with “the devil’s juice”.

Basit made sure to alert his Facebook friends to the arrival of a plasma TV he’d ordered from the British equivalent of Bing Lee (he already had a speaker system) and bragged of “livin’ the f***ing dream” behind bars.

The account was finally brought to the attention of prison authorities on July 29 and immediately deactivated, theDoncaster Free Pressreported.

But by that time, Basit had already posted dozens of times.

Officials were never able to track down the smuggled phone.

In one status update, cached and leaked to local media, he wrote: “Me and the little brother at the penthouse suite just chillin”.

In another he said: ‘U wana know what I’m doin this bank holiday im smoking cigars sipping on the good stuff hahaha £like a boss n wot lol. I wudnt hav it any ova way lol. They can send me anywer in the country nd I wil always thug it out lol. Alpha male me haha.”

Basit shares his joy at winning AUD$4200 after betting on a boxing match last Christmas

In a statement a Prison Service spokeswoman said prisoners were banned from accessing social networking sites.

“Whenever we discover or are made aware that prisoners’ social media accounts are being updated, we take immediate action to close them down.”

Inmates caught accessing social networking sites face losing their privileges and increased sentences, she said.