Prisoner Daniel Holmes recently got to meet his second daughter, who was conceived during a rare private meeting with his wife at Corradino prisons last year, it has been revealed.

Mr Holmes was jailed for over 10 years on cannabis offences, a tough sentence which sparked widespread criticism.

“She's already 90 days old, I love her, and she's very beautiful,” he told the UK’s Channel 5 programme Prison Brides, which featured his family's plight.

Three years into his sentence, given in 2009, the couple decided to tie the knot and exchanged vows during a ceremony at Corradino.

Corradino Prison allows conjugal visits for married couples and it was during a rare private meeting that his wife Marzena fell pregnant with their second daughter.

But Mr Holmes could not meet his child until she was three months old, when Marzena took the child Blossom to visit her father for the first time.

Marzena had been raised without a father and said it was heartbreaking to see her daughters go through a similar situation.

Mr Holmes was 28 when he was arrested in 2006 at his Gozo flat, where he was growing cannabis plants that he insisted were for his personal use.

The police said he was found with just over a kilogram of dried cannabis and 0.24 grams of cannabis resin, with a total value of €11,600.

He was charged with the importation, cultivation, possession and sale of cannabis.

In 2011, he was sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in prison and fined €23,000.

The Welshman's parents expressed their disappointment that the Prime Minister and the President have refused to consider an amnesty.