Colin Gunn, who is serving a 35-year sentence in a maximum-security prison. used Facebook to intimidate people on the outside

Colin Gunn, who is serving a 35-year sentence in a maximum-security prison.

Gunn, who is behind bars for ordering the execution of a couple of grandparents, used Facebook to intimidate people on the outside and to communicate with some of his partners in crime over the last two months. Here's a peek at what one of "Britain's most dangerous gangsters" was posting: "It's good to have an outlet to let you know how I am, some of you will be in for a good slagging, some have let me down badly, and will be named and shamed, f****** rats." Gunn's account was deactivated around the end of January, leaving his 500-odd friends to come up with more creative ways to communicate with their boss. (The ol' contraband hidden inside a loaf of bread has always been a favorite of ours.)

The Times speculates that prison authorities were afraid of violating Gunn's human rights by denying him access to Facebook; but we're not buying it, seeing as social networking sites are supposed to be banned in British prisons. More likely, they were afraid of Gunn "violating" them with a shank. [From: Times Online, via: Huffington Post]