Two men and a woman have been jailed for smuggling prohibited items into prison. The convictions follow an investigation by officers from the Prison Intelligence Team in the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU) in partnership with HM Prisons and Probation Service (HMPPS) Counter Corruption Unit. At Aylesbury Crown Court on 2nd June, Chelsea […]
A prison officer at a privately run male prison has been charged with a number of child sex offences. Ashley Evans, 36, of Archangel Square, Northampton, has been charged with five offences, including engaging in sexual communication with a child and attempting to arrange or facilitate sexual activity with a child. Mr Evans, who works […]
Tracy Boateng, 27, had admitted misconduct in a public office through engaging in an inappropriate relationship with Vincent Ojo at HMP Pentonville between February 25 and April 19 last year. On Monday, she was sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court to 12 months imprisonment suspended for 24 months. Evidence against the prison officer, who is from […]
A female prison officer has been charged with having a sexual relationships with two inmates at the same time – whilst allegedly smuggling drugs into a jail. Isabelle Dale appeared in court over her alleged fling with Shahid Sharif, 33, in high security HMP Swaleside on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, between September 1, 2021 […]
A corrupt prison officer who smuggled drugs disguised in puzzle books into a Norfolk jail for her inmate boyfriend as part of a £130,000 operation has been ordered to repay just £48. Sophie Emms, 29, who worked at Wayland Prison, was paid £7,000 to take in spice and cannabis for inmate Jediah Clarke to sell […]
A prison officer who was drunk, complained about his wife to a barmaid, before sexually assaulting her, a court heard. Michael Gardner, who had been a prison officer for more than 20 years and was employed at HMP Parc in Bridgend at the time of the incident, pleaded guilty to sexual assault and theft and […]
A female prison officer has been jailed after engaging in an illicit sexual relationship with a career criminal while working at a high-security prison. Twenty-two-year-old Niamh Lloyd met Lee Makin, a 40-year-old notorious burglar, during her time working at Forest Bank Jail in Salford. The relationship began after Lloyd allegedly suffered a sexual assault while […]
A Guernsey prison officer has been found guilty of “indecent behaviour” after exposing himself to a massage therapist. Jason Francis Tardif, 53, a prison officer from St Sampson’s, was convicted of the summary offence at Guernsey Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. Judge Gary Perry told the court how Tardif had “behaved in an indecent manner” during […]
Kiera Burton was stopped and searched on her way into work and is one of 15 members of the organised crime gang who have now been tailed for a total of more than 50 years between them. The 33-year-old from Leyland was part of the criminal network involved in supplying cannabis, spice, ketamine and MDMA […]
A prison officer who had an “inappropriate relationship” with Zara Aleena’s murderer has been jailed for nine months. Between March 6, 2023 to April 7, 2023, Hayley Jones was seen kissing and touching Jordan McSweeney on CCTV at HMP Belmarsh in London. Mum-of-one Jones, 34, had previously admitted misconduct in public office at Woolwich Crown […]
A female prison officer has admitted communicating with an inmate at HMP Norwich using an phone hidden in his cell. Naomi Ellis, 32, made a series of calls and text exchanges with the male prisoner over a three-month period in 2023. Norwich Magistrates’ Court heard she had begun working at the prison as a part-time […]
A member of a criminal gang was found to have gained more than £15,000 from his exploits while in jail – but was only ordered to pay £10 back. Leon ‘Layton’ Ramsden, was jailed for life in 2009 for stabbing a man to death in a Bolton town centre bar. Ramsden, originally from Bolton, continued […]