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Ian Craine, you say:

"Contact between a prisoner and his solicitor by mobile phone is certainly not wrong providing the solicitor is not conniving at criminal activity which would not normally be the case."

Possession of a mobile phone has been an offence against prison discipline (punishable by the imposition of additional days) for as long as I can remember, and in fact it became a criminal offence in its own right for at least 10 years.

Accordingly, although you say that "a mobile phone can be used for proper means inside prison or out, and for improper means," this is not the case. Rather, there can never be any use of a mobile phone "for proper means" inside a prison.

It matters not whether there was any ill intent with the contact; the offence was committed when she responded.