surgically removing it. The 29-year-old prisoner was rushed to A&E in Dublin after vomiting for four hours. Known to have psychiatric and social issues, he told staff he had swallowed his mobile phone six hours earlier.
At first, a chest X-ray showed the device was resting in the part of the abdomen just above the stomach. Eight hours later, scans revealed the phone had moved to his stomach but had not progressed into his bowel.
Surgeons tried to remove the device by putting a long, thin, tube with a camera on one end down his throat. But when they were unable to drag the mobile out safely, surgery was the only option
