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Daily Record
18-05-2025
- Daily Record
Female prison officer flings exposed from smuggled knickers to jail baby
Infatuated guard Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington, 29, was given a suspended sentence last week for the bizarre plot to have a baby with an 'extremely dangerous' inmate. Former prison officer Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington, 29, almost landed herself in jail last week for her fling with 'extremely dangerous' inmate, sex offender Bradley Trengrove, 31. The guard at HMP The Verne in Portland, Dorset, had sex with the prisoner on as many as 40 occasions while she was on duty and had the lag's name on her phone as 'husband to be', The mum-of-three became pregnant with Trengrove's baby, but suffered a miscarriage then tried to get pregnant again by 'artificially inseminating' herself with his sperm in a Calpol syringe. But her case is far from rare. Figures from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) show 19 members of prison staff were charged with misconduct in public office between 2023 and 2024 - the highest number of guard and prisoner liaisons in the past 10 years. Here we look at some of the other flings to be exposed behind bars. Kerri Pegg A prison governor was jailed for nine years last week for having a relationship with a drug-dealing gang boss at HMP Kirkham in Lancashire. Kerri Pegg, 42, was branded a "rising star" of the Prison Service, rapidly climbing the career ladder from graduate to governor. But her trial heard she "didn't play by the rules" and began a relationship with major Liverpool crime figure Anthony Saunderson, and helped him secure day release. Sentencing her at Preston Crown Court, Judge Graham Knowles KC told Pegg: "You betrayed the public trust in you and you betrayed the Prison Service." Tracy Boateng Prison officer Tracy Boateng, 27, avoided jail last week after having a fling with a drug-dealing inmate. The 27-year-old was arrested after colleagues found footage on her body-worn camera of her posing for a selfie with heroin dealer Vincent Ojo. Other clips caught Boateng, an officer at HMP Pentonville, using sexualised language with the prisoner and hugging and kissing him while leaking confidential information on his files. The mum appeared in Snaresbrook Crown Court on Monday to be sentenced for a single count of misconduct in a public office. Judge Caroline English said: "I cannot emphasise enough just how serious this offence is." Katie Evans Officer Katie Evans, 26, was sentenced to 21 months in prison in March after being "manipulated by an experienced criminal". A judge said she had been "corrupted" by prisoner Daniel Brownley, who was jailed for attempted robbery, shortly after she started working at HMP Doncaster. Evans had more than 140 phone calls with Brownley, moved money for him and supplied him with inside information. Judge Jeremy Richardson KC said Brownley boasted to an ex-prison officer that she had performed oral sex on him. Moss, defending, said Evans was "immature and vulnerable" at the time and is "absolutely ashamed of her behaviour". Toni Cole Guard Toni Cole was sentenced to 12 months behind bars in February after swapping more than 4,000 risqué messages with an inmate she had been entrusted to guard. In January 2023, the 29-year-old engaged in a series of intimate trysts with a convict while working at Northamptonshire's new 'super-prison' HMP Five Wells. Cole sent some 4,369 messages to the con and partook in 18 video calls while participating in "contact which was sexualised or flirtatious", including sitting on the knee of her lag lover and kissing him. Hayley Jones Prison teacher Hayley Jones, 33, pleaded guilty to having an "inappropriate relationship" with convicted killer Jordan McSweeney at HMP Belmarsh in August 2024. Judge David Miller said: "Some of the evidence was that he was getting special favours or treatment. He may have been bragging to another prisoner about the power that he had over this person." But despite the workshop instructor admitting to misconduct, charges were later dropped against McSweeney as there was "insufficient evidence" of his part in the fling. McSweeney is serving a minimum of 33 years for the murder and sexual assault of Zara Aleena, a 35-year-old law graduate, in June 2022. Linda De Sousa Abreu HMP Wandsworth officer Linda De Sousa Abreu, 30, was jailed for 15 months in January after a video was shared on social media showing her having sex with an inmate in a cell. In a prepared statement, De Sousa Abreu claimed she was "terrified for her own safety" prior to the offences and feared she would be raped. The officer, who previously described herself as a swinger, had a number of videos on adult platform Only Fans where she described herself as a "happily married sexy Latina" under a pseudonym. At sentencing, Judge Martin Edmunds KC said: "It must have been obvious that the recording would be shown around and shared, at least amongst prisoners at Wandsworth where it would do the most harm." Morgan Farr Varney Prison guard Morgan Farr Varney's 'physical and romantic relationship" with an inmate was exposed after she was caught on CCTV sneaking into a cupboard with him at HMP Lindholme. Love letters were then found during a search of Farr Varney's lover's cell and in her bedroom. Farr Varney was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office in January 2023. She told officers she "proper fell in love" with the inmate, and said she was worried that she had "f****d" her life up. The relationship continued after she quit her job. Farr Varney pleaded guilty to misconduct in public office at Sheffield Crown Court in April last year. Ayshea Gunn Officer Ayshea Gunn, 27, was jailed for 12 months in December 2019 for a four-month fling with an inmate. Her lover Khuram Razaq, 29, was serving time for armed robbery and assault and the pair exchanged more than 1,200 phone calls, including explicit video calls, while the prisoner was serving time at HMP Berwyn in Wrexham. Gunn, who has a degree in criminology and psychology, smuggled items into the prison for Razaq, including a pair of knickers. Sentencing Gunn, Judge Niclas Parry said the images were "highly sexualised and pornographic images" created "at significant risk". Defence barriset Peter Hunter said Gunn had become depressed and was "at the bottom in her world". Jennifer Gavan Prison officer Jennifer Gavan was jailed in December 2022 for having an inappropriate relationship with prisoner Alex Coxon at HMP Berwyn in Wales. Coxon, 25, bribed Gavan with £150 to give him a mobile phone, which they used to secretly carry out their relationship. A court heard the pair were rumbled after Coxon's phone was discovered in his cell with explicit videoson it which had been sent through Snapchat. Gavan later admitted to sending the image and that she'd kissed Coxon, an inmate with a track record of drugs and robbery. She was jailed for eight months after pleading guilty to misconduct in a public office and Coxon was handed 10 months for having a prohibited item in jail. Corinne Redhead Corinne Redhead, 29, was jailed for having an inmate's baby in 2022 following a secret year-long fling with convicted robber Robert O'Connor. O'Connor was serving a 10-year sentence at The Mount prison in Hertfordshire when Redhead was working as a supervisor on the wing. The fling lasted from January 2018 to January 2019. She was six months pregnant after a tip-off led to her fellow officers to search his single cell, where a mobile was found with Redhead's number saved under the name "my baby". They had shared video calls and messages which showed they were having a sexual relationship. Drea Becker, mitigating, told Luton Crown Court that Redhead made a "terrible mistake" and "expresses remorse and shame" but she was jailed for 25 months. Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community! Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today. You'll receive daily updates on breaking news as well as the top headlines across Scotland. No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Daily Record team. All you have to do is click here if you're on mobile, select 'Join Community' and you're in! If you're on a desktop, simply scan the QR code above with your phone and click 'Join Community'. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. 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Daily Mirror
18-05-2025
- Daily Mirror
Wildest prison officer flings - sperm syringe to jail baby and smuggled knickers
As guard Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington was given a suspended sentence after 'artificially inseminating' herself with her prison lover's sperm, the Mirror takes a look at other shocking staff-prisoner flings They're supposed to be locking up, not hooking up. But a wave of female prison officers have landed themselves in hot water after getting too close to the inmates they're meant to keep in line. The latest is Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington, 29, who, as a prison officer at HMP The Verne in Portland, Dorset, fell for 'extremely dangerous' inmate, sex offender Bradley Trengrove, 31. The pair had sex on as many as 40 occasions while she was on duty, and she became pregnant with Trengrove's baby, but suffered a miscarriage. The infatuated officer, who had the lag's name on her phone as 'husband to be', then tried to get pregnant again by 'artificially inseminating' himself with his sperm in a Calpol syringe. Mum-of-three Austin-Saddington narrowly missed seeing the inside of a jail cell herself after she was handed a suspended sentence for misconduct in a public office last week. But by no means is she the only prison officer caught in a steamy fling with an inmate. According to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), 19 members of prison staff were charged with misconduct in public office between 2023 and 2024 - the highest number of lock-up liaisons in the past 10 years. Here we look at some of the others… Kerri Pegg On Friday, a prison governor was jailed for nine years for having a relationship with a drug-dealing gang boss at HMP Kirkham in Lancashire. Kerri Pegg, 42, was seen as a "rising star" of the Prison Service, climbing the career ladder from graduate to governor in six years. But her trial heard she "didn't play by the rules" and began a relationship with major Liverpool crime figure Anthony Saunderson, helping him secure day release. Sentencing her at Preston Crown Court, Judge Graham Knowles KC told her: "You betrayed the public trust in you and you betrayed the Prison Service." Tracy Boateng Last week, prison officer Tracy Boateng, 27, avoided jail after having a fling with a drug-dealing inmate who thought she was his "fairytale ending". The 27-year-old was arrested after colleagues found footage on her body-worn camera of her posing for a selfie with heroin dealer Vincent Ojo while telling him to say "cheese" as she held up two fingers while Ojo stuck his tongue out. Other clips caught Boateng, an officer at HMP Pentonville, using sexualised language with the prisoner and hugging and kissing him in a jail office. The footage also suggested that Boateng had given Ojo confidential information from his files. In one clip he could be heard saying: "Let me see what it says in relation to my…" Ojo had been in the jail since 2020 after being recalled to prison for breaking his licence conditions in relation to a 2016 sentence for possession of heroin with intent to supply. The mother of a three-month-old daughter from Dagenham, Essex, appeared in Snaresbrook Crown Court on Monday to be sentenced for a single count of misconduct in a public office. Judge Caroline English said that it was only the fact Boateng was the sole carer for such a young child that had saved her from prison. Judge English said: "I cannot emphasise enough just how serious this offence is. As a senior prison officer you held a position of authority and trust and were expected to discharge the duties by upholding prison rules. You knowingly breached those conditions with a prisoner who was under your supervision." Katie Evans Officer Katie Evans, 26, was sentenced to 21 months behind bars in March by a judge who told her she had been "manipulated by an experienced criminal". She had been "corrupted" by prisoner Daniel Brownley, who was jailed for attempted robbery, shortly after she started working at HMP Doncaster when she was 21, the court heard. Evans had more than 140 phone calls with Brownley, moved money around bank accounts for him, and supplied him with information the prison held on him, Judge Jeremy Richardson KC said. When talking to Brownley she referred to herself as 'your queen' and boasted to an ex-prison officer that she had performed oral sex on him. Moss, defending, said Evans was "immature and vulnerable" at the time and is "absolutely ashamed of her behaviour". The judge said the sentence should have been longer, but "purely as an act of mercy", he reduced it to take into account the effect it will have on her young daughter and the difficulties she will face as a former officer. Toni Cole In February officer Toni Cole was sentenced to 12 months behind bars after swapping more than 4,000 risqué messages with an inmate she had been entrusted to guard. In January 2023, the 29-year-old female guard engaged in a series of intimate trysts with a convict while working at Northamptonshire's new 'super-prison' HMP Five Wells. Over the course of the illicit romance, Cole sent some 4,369 messages to the con and partook in 18 video calls while participating in "contact which was sexualised or flirtatious". Flouting prison rules, Cole would sit on the knee of her lag lover and kiss him. The game was finally up when bosses got wind of what was really going on. Hayley Jones In August 2024, prison teacher Hayley Jones, 33, pleaded guilty to having an "inappropriate relationship" with convicted killer Jordan McSweeney at HMP Belmarsh. Judge David Miller said: "Some of the evidence was that he was getting special favours or treatment. He may have been bragging to another prisoner about the power that he had over this person." But despite the workshop instructor admitting to misconduct, charges were later dropped against McSweeney as there was "insufficient evidence" to prove the twisted killer was guilty of further criminality. McSweeney is currently serving a minimum term of 33 years for the heinous murder and sexual assault of Zara Aleena, a 35-year-old law graduate, in June 2022. Linda De Sousa Abreu In January HMP Wandsworth officer Linda De Sousa Abreu, 30, was jailed for 15 months after a video was widely shared on social media showing her having sex with an inmate in a cell. The shocking clip, which went viral, captured the woman, clad in uniform, having sex while a cellmate filmed it on a mobile phone. In a prepared statement, De Sousa Abreu claimed she was "terrified for her own safety" prior to the offences. She said: "I thought if I didn't go along with it, they would have both raped me and there was no guard on the landing." The officer, who previously described herself as a swinger, had a number of videos on adult platform OnlyFans, where she described herself as a "happily married sexy Latina" under a pseudonym. At sentencing, Judge Martin Edmunds KC said: "From what I know about you, you were certainly not naïve about the media or social media." He continued: "It must have been obvious that the recording would be shown around and shared, at least amongst prisoners at Wandsworth where it would do the most harm. Whether you intended it or not, the fact is that the video went viral, and caused great harm." He added: "You knew that conduct was forbidden." Morgan Farr Varney Prison guard Morgan Farr Varney's 'physical and romantic relationship" with an inmate while working at HMP Lindholme was exposed after she was caught on CCTV sneaking into a cupboard with the man. A search of the inmate's cell then led discovery of a tranche of love letters, with more found during a search of Farr Varney's bedroom. Farr Varney - who appeared on ITV's This Morning last year to complain of her issues with an online dentistry service - was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office in January 2023. In an interview, she told officers she "proper fell in love" with the inmate, and said she was worried that she had "f****d" her life up. After being arrested in January 2023 Farr Varney quit her job at the prison, with the inmate transferred to another prison. But their relationship continued, and police officers later found more photographs of Farr Varney on the inmate following his move to HMP Wealstun in West Yorkshire. Farr Varney pleaded guilty to misconduct in public office at Sheffield Crown Court on April 16 last year, and was remanded in custody. Ayshea Gunn Officer Ayshea Gunn, 27, was jailed for 12 months in December 2019 after having a four-month fling with inmate Khuram Razaq, 29, who was serving time for armed robbery and assault. The pair exchanged more than 1,200 phone calls, including explicit video calls, some of which were streamed over the internet while the prisoner was serving time at HMP Berwyn in Wrexham. Gunn, who has a degree in criminology and psychology, smuggled items into the prison for Razaq, including clothes, a smartwatch and a pair of knickers. Some of the calls were made via a third party in Birmingham in order to cover her tracks, and on other occasions she pretended to be someone else when calling the phone in his cell. Judge Niclas Parry, sentencing Gunn after she admitted misconduct in a public office, said the images were "highly sexualised and pornographic images" created "at significant risk". Defence barriset Peter Hunter said Gunn had become depressed and was "at the bottom in her world", adding: "Somebody showed her affection and she stupidly accepted." Razaq admitted two charges of possessing a specified item inside a prison. Jennifer Gavan Corrupt prison officer Jennifer Gavan was jailed in December 2022 for having an inappropriate relationship with prisoner Alex Coxon, also at HMP Berwyn in Wales, where she was working in April 2020. Coxon, 25, bribed Gavan with £150 to give him a mobile phone, which they used to secretly conduct their relationship. A court heard the pair were rumbled after Coxon's phone was discovered underneath a laptop in his cell with explicit videos found on it which had been sent through Snapchat. Gavan later admitted to sending the image and that she'd kissed Coxon, an inmate with a track record of drugs and robbery. She was described by her own barrister as having "immaturity with an element of naivety", but had shown "empathy" for inmates unable to see visitors during the Covid lockdowns. She had just come out of a very lengthy relationship and was "manipulated" into thinking she was in love. Gavan was jailed for eight months after pleading guilty to misconduct in a pulic office and Coxon was handed 10 months for having a prohibited item in jail. Corinne Redhead In 2022, officer Corinne Redhead, 29, was jailed for having an inmate's baby following a secret year-long fling with convicted robber Robert O'Connor at The Mount prison in Hertfordshire. O'Connor was serving a 10-year sentence when Redhead was working as a supervisor on the wing. The relationship lasted from January 2018 to January 2019. Redhead was caught at six months pregnant after a tip-off led to her fellow officers to search his single cell, where a Samsung Galaxy mobile was found hidden in the U-bend of his toilet. Redhead's number was saved on the phone under the name "my baby" and they had shared video calls and messages which showed they were having a sexual relationship. Redhead later gave birth to a child and named O'Connor as the father on the birth certificate. Drea Becker, mitigating, told Luton Crown Court that Redhead made a "terrible mistake" and "expresses remorse and shame". She was jailed for 25 months. Why do prison flings happen? Criminologist and psychologist Alex Iszatt told the Mirror that these inappropriate flings "occur regularly in prisons, but they are not always driven by sexual attraction". She said a number of factors play a role in a jail fling forming, including "emotional attachment, vulnerability, dependency, power dynamics, trauma bonding and grooming". Alex explained: "When women work in male-dominated prisons, they can become rare, sexualised objects of attention. This dynamic has been portrayed in porn, and occasionally, the boundaries between fantasy and reality can blur." She said prisons can be "isolating environments" which leads officers and inmates to turn to each other. "If officers aren't trained to set boundaries, and supervisors fail to manage effectively, situations can quickly get out of hand - especially if the individual lacks emotional support outside of work," the criminologist continued. Alex said female officers may be more susceptible to relationships if they are "emotionally vulnerable or lonely". "Inmates may exploit these vulnerabilities, particularly if they sense that the officer is seeking emotional validation or attention," she said. Once this relationship takes off, another level of mind games comes into play, with "fear of retaliation, loss of earnings, and loss of respect" potentially forcing the relationship to last longer than planned. "Ultimately, inappropriate relationships between female correctional officers and inmates are not primarily driven by physical attractiveness. Rather, they stem from emotional vulnerability, manipulation, power dynamics, and the stresses of the prison environment, all of which can contribute to boundary-crossing," Alex concluded. In response to the recent surge in the number of prison officers in the UK charged with having sexual encounters with the prisoners, an MoJ spokesman told the Mirror: "The vast majority of our prison officers are honest and hard-working. We will always take robust action against those who are not."
Sunday World
15-05-2025
- Sunday World
Prison officer who had sex with ‘dangerous' rapist up to 40 times while on duty avoids jail
Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington had even plotted to get pregnant by the sex offender using a Calpol syringe A prison officer who had sex with an 'exceptionally dangerous' rapist while on duty has avoided jail. Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington had sex up to 40 times with sex offender Bradley Trengrove at HNP The Verne in Dorset, England. The pair had a six-month relationship, during which they had sex in the prison while Cherri-Ann was on duty. The court heard she smuggled in a mobile phone for him so that they could communicate when she was not at work. She had his number saved in her phone as 'husband to be.' Convicted rapist Bradley Trengrove and prison officer Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington News in 90 Seconds - May 14th In one text message she sent him, she called the rapist 'the one' and confessed he was her 'reason for living.' When he was moved to a different prison she visited him under a false name. Bournemouth Crown Court also heard she was pregnant by Trengrove but tragically lost the baby, before coming up with a cunning plan to get pregnant again. The 29-year-old smuggled a syringe into the prison so her lover could collect his sperm and wrap it in cling film. She then planned to 'artifically inseminate' herself with it. She was arrested following a pat-down search when the empty Calpol syringe was found in her bra. The court handed her down a sentence of two years, suspended for 18 months after she pleaded guilty to charges of misconduct in a public office and conveying a mobile phone into a prison. Trengrove was behind bars, serving a 13 year extended jail term for the rape of a woman and sexual activity with a child in 2013 and 2014 at the time of the relationship. For his role in the affair, he was given a further two years and three months on top of his original sentence. Austin-Saddington began working at the prison in July 2019, and by the following year, she was given a written warning after concerns were raised about her professionalism and interactions with the prisoners. Her probationary period was also lengthened after she was suspected of engaging in an inappropriate relationship with two prisoners. Trengrove was transferred to the prison in January 2022, and their relationship began in August. He told cops they had sex up to 40 times in a prison workshop. Prosecutor Robert Bryan, told the court: 'He said things moved on from being friendly in August-September 2022. 'He said 'I did maintenance work around the prison, there were lots of workshops, we would meet down at the workshops where less people were around. It got to the point she was coming in for work on days off and we would work together for three or four hours at a time.' 'He said they had unprotected sex 30-40 times,' he continued. 'She told him in November she was pregnant with his baby. He encouraged her to be less risky but she said that would mean less opportunity to meet. 'She lost the baby at about eight weeks.' Trengrove was moved to a different prison in March 2023. Austin-Saddington's defence Emily Cook told the court that her client was in a wheelchair following an 'incredibly devastating physical event that has occurred since her offending.' The mother of three found herself wheelchair-dependent after her partner awoke to find her on the floor in February 2024. 'She doesn't know how but something was going on with her spine. She is wheelchair-dependent. She has had her liberty curtailed for many months, not by the court but by her ill health,' Cook said. You can see from the messaging, they formed a very intense and infatuated relationship. She takes full responsibility for what she did. She is very ashamed and upset,' she added. 'You are not sentencing the woman who committed these offences, she's a very different woman now.' Trengrove's defence Nick Robinson, said their relationship was 'genuine infatuation.' 'Everything was driven towards having conversation with someone he genuinely cared about. 'Before this he was a good prisoner, working hard towards the earliest possible release. 'He knew what he was doing, his heart ruled his head.' At sentencing, Judge Jonathan Fuller KC told Austin-Saddington that the prison service expects the highest standards from their employees. 'Failure to apply those standards can have an enormous and lasting impact on the prisons, the care of inmates, the integrity which is to be maintained and, of course, public confidence. 'Your betrayal of that trust represents a serious and prolonged misconduct by someone in public office. 'I am mindful of your current physical state and pending rehabilitation. For that reason only I reduce the sentence in order to suspend it. 'Had it not been for the accident that befell Miss Austin-Saddington the sentence would have been an immediate sentence of imprisonment,' he said. 'The intensity of their feelings towards each other, as shown in the messages, could perhaps be described as mutual obsession with each other. The expressed intention was that they should spend the rest of their lives together. 'This was a relationship of equal halves, both making the wrong decision.'
Daily Mirror
15-05-2025
- Daily Mirror
Prison officer smuggled mobile into jail to arrange sex sessions with rapist
Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington and convicted rapist Bradley Trengrove had sex up to 40 times while she was working in HMP The Verne where he was serving a 13-year term A female prisoner officer smuggled a mobile phone into the jail where she worked so she could contact her rapist lover to arrange meet ups for sex. Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington had sex in workshops at HMP The Verne on Portland, Dorset when no-one was around after becoming besotted with Bradley Trengrove, who has been described as an "exceptionally dangerous" sex offender. The pair would arrange their trysts in the category C prison on the phone which she had taken in for him as they embarked on a six-month relationship, in which she even got pregnant, despite later losing their unborn baby. A court heard the mother-of-three saved his name in her mobile under 'husband to be' and when Trengrove, 31, was moved to another prison she visited him using a fake name. She was also so infatuated with the convict that she went along with a bizarre plan to get pregnant by him again. During a visit the 29 year old smuggled in an empty Calpol syringe in her bra so she could 'artificially inseminate' herself with his sperm he had wrapped in cling film for her. It was found during a search by officers. Robert Bryan, prosecuting, read out some gushing messages the prison officer sent Trengrove stating he was "the one" and that she would love him "til my last breath. She added that he was her "reason for living". Mr Bryan said: "He said things moved on from being friendly in August-September 2022. He said 'I did maintenance work around the prison, there were lots of workshops, we would meet down at the workshops where less people were around. "'It got to the point she was coming in for work on days off and we would work together for three or four hours at a time'. He said they had unprotected sex 30-40 times. She told him in November she was pregnant with his baby. He encouraged her to be less risky but she said that would mean less opportunity to meet. She lost the baby at about eight weeks." Trengrove was moved HMP Channings Wood in Devon in March 2023 and then Austin-Sadddington sent him intimate photos while he was there, but they were intercepted by staff. She was arrested when she was caught trying to smuggle the syringe into the prison during a visit. Austin-Saddington, from Weymouth, pleaded guilty to misconduct in a public office. Emily Cook, defending Austin-Saddington, argued that her client shouldn't be jailed due to her ill health. She said: "She had this incredibly devastating physical event that has occurred since her offending. In February 2024, her then partner awoke to find her on the floor. She doesn't know how but something was going on with her spine. "She is wheelchair-dependent. She has had her liberty curtailed for many months, not by the court but by her ill health. You can see from the messaging, they formed a very intense and infatuated relationship. She takes full responsibility for what she did. She is very ashamed and upset. You are not sentencing the woman who committed these offences, she's a very different woman now." Nick Robinson, defending Trengrove, said it was a 'genuine infatuation', he was not corrupting her. He said: "Everything was driven towards having conversation with someone he genuinely cared about. Before this he was a good prisoner, working hard towards the earliest possible release. He knew what he was doing, his heart ruled his head." Judge Jonathan Fuller KC told Austin-Saddington: "The prison service expects the highest standards from their employees. Failure to apply those standards can have an enormous and lasting impact on the prisons, the care of inmates, the integrity which is to be maintained and, of course, public confidence. Your betrayal of that trust represents a serious and prolonged misconduct by someone in public office. "I am mindful of your current physical state and pending rehabilitation. For that reason only I reduce the sentence in order to suspend it. Had it not been for the accident that befell Miss Austin-Saddington the sentence would have been an immediate sentence of imprisonment." He added: "The intensity of their feelings towards each other, as shown in the messages, could perhaps be described as mutual obsession with each other. The expressed intention was that they should spend the rest of their lives together. "This was a relationship of equal halves, both making the wrong decision." Austin-Saddington admitted misconduct in a public office and conveying a mobile phone into a prison. Austin-Saddington was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for 18 months with 25 rehabilitation activity days. Trengrove, from Cramborne, Cornwall, was already serving a 13 year extended jail sentence for raping a woman and having sexual activity with a child in 2013 and 2014. He was given another two years and three months to serve on top of his original sentence for his part in the sordid affair.
