A PRISONER serving time for knifing a man who sent a Facebook friend request to his girlfriend has had his new account taken down for updating it from jail, after action by the Telegraph & Argus.

Ross Hunter was jailed for seven years in January after being convicted of pursuing Aaron Hogan from a bus stop and stabbing him in the chest on Halloween last year.

Hunter told Mr Hogan: “I am going to kill you,” before chasing him along Cliffe Lane West in Baildon and delivering a blow with a kitchen knife as he climbed a gate to get away.

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The trial heard that Hunter, 26, of Sissons Road, Middleton, Leeds, was angered by a Facebook friend request that Mr Hogan had sent to his girlfriend.
This week, a concerned member of the public contacted the T&A after seeing that Hunter had set up a Facebook page under the name Rossi New and was posting status updates to it while in prison.
Screenshots of his homepage show that he posted about ‘Jail house flexin 100’, ie showing off or showboating, which was liked by eight of his friends.
When the Ministry of Justice was alerted to the page they acted swiftly to get it taken down.
Shipley Conservative MP Philip Davies, who has campaigned over conditions in prison and commented on similar cases, welcomed the decision but said it should not need the T&A to raise cases for the MoJ to act.
The friend of Hunter’s victim said: “It’s an absolute disgrace.
“We nearly lost Aaron a few times. He was in hospital for a month, in ICU and needed a blood transfusion.”
The friend said they were really pleased that the page had been taken down after the T&A raised the case.
West Yorkshire Police refused the T&A permission to re-use Hunter’s custody picture despite arguments that it was in the public interest to do so in case he set up another Facebook page.
Hunter pleaded guilty to unlawfully and maliciously wounding Mr Hogan with intent to cause him grievous bodily harm and possessing a kitchen knife as an offensive weapon. 
In sentencing Hunter, the Recorder of Bradford, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC, said of the stabbing: “It involved the use of a weapon with the intention to cause the sort of harm that inevitably arises from a chest wound.”
A Prison Service spokesperson said: “We do not tolerate the use of mobile phones in prisons and the account has been removed from Facebook at our request. 
“Anyone found with a mobile phone faces extra time behind bars. We are spending millions on security measures such as body scanners and £2 million to detect and block phones being used in prison.”
Mr Davies said: “Clearly the prisons are way off the pace in tackling the scourge of mobile phones and other contraband getting to prisoners.
“I congratulate the T&A in getting this account closed down but it shouldn’t take a local newspaper to do that. Prisons need to have a much more robust regime in place with proper deterrents for people caught posting with mobile devices.
“Prisoners taunting victims from their cells in this way is completely unacceptable and prisons need to get a grip.
“I had a good discussion with the governor at Doncaster prison about this on my recent visit and whilst I acknowledge the efforts they are making to stop contraband material getting into prison we didn’t necessarily see eye to eye on the prison regime which I still consider to be too lax.”
This is just the latest case investigated by the T&A of people using social media while in prison or on remand.
Last month we reported on car thief Jared Lupton who was held on remand in HMP Doncaster.
While in there he filmed himself and another inmate on a smartphone and posted it on social media site Instagram from inside the prison.
We have also reported on a group of prisoners who posted photographs and a video of themselves smiling and laughing at HMP Doncaster in December.