Criminal who had ‘flings' with two prison workers sent back to jail after a week on the run
A prison nurse was jailed for six months after she admitted to misconduct in a public office following their 'relationship'
A criminal who had flings with two prison workers has been sent back to prison after he spent a week on the run.
Harri Pullen (27) was arrested after he was caught dealing drugs, only to flee custody in a getaway car after requesting to use the bathroom.
The gang member was released from prison after serving a four-year sentence in Bridgend, Wales, only to be nabbed for selling crack cocaine on his e-bike.
He was discovered with five wraps of crack cocaine, a burner phone, an iPhone and £90 inside a bum bag.
When detained, he told police he had a pain in his head and was taken to hospital for treatment.
Pullen escaped in a getaway car when he was permitted to go to the bathroom.
He was still wearing handcuffs as he ran through the hospital car park and ambulance bay to escape.
Officers ran after him, but he managed to get away when he jumped into a car that fled at speed.
One week later, he was found hiding in a farmhouse and tried to escape again but eventually surrendered.
Julia Cox, defending, told the court that her client was 'immature' and suffered from 'hypochondria', believing that he had a brain tumour.
'This was not anything that was pre-planned. It was more opportunistic than that.
'It was upon his family's attendance at the hospital that he, in his words, 'lost his head'.'
Pullen pleaded guilty to 11 charges, including drug possession, escaping custody, and dangerous driving and will return to prison for six years.
During his previous stint behind bars, he had flings with a prison officer and a nurse.
Ruth Shmylo (26) was accused of having an 'inappropriate relationship' with Pullen between December 2020 and April 2021 while she was working at HMP Parc in Wales.
Cardiff Crown Court heard that Pullen passed Shmylo a note with his phone number on it. She said she pushed it back, to which he threatened her, asking: 'Do you know what you've just done?'
Prison officer Ruth Shmylo
She told the court that Pullen had initiated phone sex with her, and she repeatedly asked him to stop, adding that she viewed it as sexual harassment.
Shmylo was found not guilty of misconduct in public office and walked free following the trial.
In 2022, 27-year-old medic Elyse Hobbs was jailed for six months for having an 'inappropriate relationship' with Pullen.
Convicted drug dealer Harri Pullen
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The Manchester woman admitted to misconduct in a public office while working at HMP Parc. Cardiff Crown Court heard the pair met when Hibbs was giving Pullen medical treatment.
He was moved to HMP Manchester – commonly known as Strangeways Prison – after concerns were raised about the inmates' behaviour.
Hibbs handed her phone number over to friends of Pullen who had asked them to track her down online.
They then engaged in 'flirtatious' conversations over a six-week period in 2021.
Elyse Hibbs
Hibbs eventually asked Pullen to stop contacting her, and she resigned from her job.
Days later, she was arrested and struck off by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Prosecutor Matthew Cobbe told the court that their conversations were "wholly inappropriate".,
"The conversations do contain several references to the defendant asking the inmate not to contact her, nevertheless the contact does continue.
"They also reveal the inmate thought very little of the defendant; he was quite clearly manipulating her."
Adam Sharp, defending, said that the contact happened while the inmate was in a different prison, adding that his client didn't make any gains from the romance - financial or otherwise.
"The misconduct was not face-to-face, it wasn't even within physical proximity to each other."
He also said his client, who was 23 at the time of the offence, "young, impressionable and relatively inexperienced" and "emotionally vulnerable".
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