Burglar who robbed Simon Cowell’s house ‘smashed up prison cell while high on Spice’
Darren February has now been put in a segregation block
A BURGLAR who raided Simon Cowell’s house has been put in a jail’s segregation block after his cell was damaged.
Career criminal Darren February is suspected of smashing up the room after becoming high on zombie drug spice, a growing menace in Britain’s prisons.
Sources said the 34-year-old caused havoc at Swaleside prison in Sheppey, Kent.
One said: “February is creating problems in prison after getting hooked on the drug.
“He is one of a number of ‘Spice heads’ who regularly get into bother with prison officers. He was moved to the segregation block after his cell was damaged a couple of weeks ago.”
Jails across the country have been hit by an increasing use of the cannabis substitute.
An NHS-commissioned report recently revealed a rise in the number of inmates suffering spice-related health seizures.
February broke into X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent supremo Cowell’s West London home in December 2015.
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Cowell, 57, girlfriend Lauren Silverman, 39, their two-year-old son, Eric, and his nanny were asleep at the time.
He fled with £1million of diamonds but was caught on CCTV and his DNA was on a pair of gloves found nearby.
Ten days later, February killed motorcyclist Kenneth Baldwin, 51, in a hit-and-run smash.
CCTV showed him chatting on his mobile phone before the head-on crash and then driving away as Mr Baldwin lay dying.
He was jailed in 2016 for eight-and-a-half years for causing death by dangerous driving.
In March he got a further eight years for the Cowell burglary.
The Prison Service said last night: “We don’t comment on individuals.”