A new governor has started at Lewes prison. Eoin McLennan-Murray replaces Paul Carroll, who was promoted within the Prison Service.

The Argus revealed last month how Mr McLennan-Murray was at the centre of a parliamentary inquiry into one of his former jails.

A Home Affairs Select Committee was set up after he was removed from his role as governor at Blantyre House jail in Kent just hours before it was raided.

Prison Service director general Martin Narey said it uncovered "a quite frightening amount of contraband material".

Paul Boateng, then prisons minister and now Chief Secretary to the Treasury, referred to "98 finds of unauthorised articles".

It was later revealed the total haul amounted to three illegal mobile phones, six items of pornography and £40 in cash.

Mr McLennan-Murray, who did not know about the raid, had been told he was being moved to another job just hours before it took place.

The select committee heard how Mr McLennan-Murray had been accused of not doing enough to punish violence, alcohol and drug-use by prisoners but cleared him.

Mr McLennan-Murray, known for his commitment to the resettlement of prisoners, has described his governing philosophy as the belief that "people can change and do change".

Rowan Steadman, chairman of the Lewes Prison Independent Monitoring Board, said: "It's very early days but I think he'll do a very good job. He has to settle in but I've been impressed so far."

An investigation is still under way into a disturbance at the category-B local prison last month in which about 30 inmates lashed out with makeshift weapons and smashed up the jail's A wing.