Prison officer jailed for having sex with inmate at HMP Wandsworth | Prisons and probation

A jail officer has been sentenced to fifteen months after having intercourse with an inmate at a London jail.

Linda De Sousa Abreu, 30, of Fulham, south-west London, was charged after a video of the exercise was shared on social media.

A police investigation was launched after officers have been made conscious of a video filmed inside HMP Wandsworth. Within the footage, an inmate off-camera will be heard saying: “That is how we reside at Wandsworth, bruv.”

De Sousa Abreu appeared at Isleworth crown court docket on Monday, the place she was sentenced to fifteen months in jail. Decide Edmunds stated: “On 25 June 2024 you have been on responsibility in uniform if you went to a cell with the prisoner. You took off your prison-issue radio and put it to at least one facet. Your set of keys was liable to being taken.

“A second prisoner was current and had a digicam, probably on a cellphone which will need to have been an unauthorised cellphone. He additionally seems to have been smoking hashish. Relatively than problem his possession of a cellphone or hashish, you consented to him recording what was occurring.

“The recording lasts some 4 and a half minutes, throughout which you gave the prisoner oral intercourse, then vaginal intercourse in a variety of positions, earlier than concluding by giving extra oral intercourse.

“You participated with evident enthusiasm. The second prisoner recorded occasions and supplied a commentary by means of encouragement, together with saying: ‘Guys we made historical past,’ ‘That is how we reside at Wandsworth, bruv’ and ‘You already know you’re a gangsta.’”

The indictment stated De Sousa Abreu “wilfully and with out cheap excuse or justification misconducted your self in a means which amounted to an abuse of the general public’s belief within the workplace holder by participating in a sexual act with a prisoner in a jail cell”.

De Sousa Abreu was arrested and pleaded responsible to misconduct in public workplace at Isleworth crown court docket in July final yr. She was arrested at Heathrow airport as she was as a consequence of catch a flight to Madrid, having notified the jail of her journey plans.

HMP Wandsworth has been referred to as the worst jail in England and Wales, described as having “inhumane circumstances”.

In October, two jail officers at HMP Wandsworth have been dismissed for joking about an inmate’s suicide on a WhatsApp group. After the 21-year-old prisoner killed himself, messages celebrating his demise have been posted on a bunch containing 27 members of employees employed on the south-west London jail.