A PRISON officer has been jailed after she despatched greater than 4,000 sexual messages to an inmate.
Toni Cole, 29, struck up an inappropriate relationship with the prisoner whereas working at HMP 5 Wells in Northamptonshire.
She kissed him and sat on his lap and even gave the inmate a head’s up about cell searches on the Class C jail.
Cole additionally despatched her lag lover 4,369 messages and took half in 18 video calls whereas participating in “contact which was sexualised or flirtatious”.
She has now been jailed for a yr after pleading responsible to misconduct in public workplace.
The jail officer was additionally ordered to pay a surcharge of £187 at Northampton Crown Court docket.
Cole’s fling with the prisoner happened between December 9, 2022, and January 25, 2023, earlier than it was rumbled by bosses.
She is the second feminine officer convicted of misconduct in public workplace on the Wellingborough jail.
Final yr, Rachel Stanton was convicted over her relationship with jailed armed robber Edwin Poole.
The mum-of-five, 31, had intercourse with the inmate in a storeroom and later gave start to his child.
Their illicit tryst was rumbled when jail employees found three X-rated images and a racy love letter in Poole’s cell.
Stanton sobbed at Northampton Crown Court docket as she was spared a jail sentence for wilful misconduct in public workplace.
She was as a substitute handed a nine-month sentence, suspended for 18 months, and ordered to participate in 20 days rehabilitation exercise.
The pair are the most recent a string of feminine jail officers caught romping with inmates.
Aleesha Bates, 29, and Jodie Wilkes, 27, exchanged 1000’s of messages with the identical inmate throughout a bootleg love triangle at Buckley Corridor jail in Rochdale.
The Solar additionally revealed how caged gangsters are even bragging about paying feminine officers £20,000 for intercourse.
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