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Metro
02-08-2025
- Metro
Prison officer ‘had relationship with 17-year-old young offender inmate'
A former prison officer has been accused of being in a relationship with one her teenage inmates and smuggling cannabis inside jail walls. Ruta Indrasiunaite, from Mitcham, south London, is said to have been in a relationship with 17-year-old Royston Perry at HMP Cookham Wood, a Young Offenders' Institution in Rochester, between April and November 2021. The 38-year-old allegedly brought cannabis inside the jail and took a list of approved PIN telephone numbers for a prisoner. She appeared before magistrates in Sevenoaks on July 31, and denied charges of misconduct in public office, bringing a prohibited article to a prison and taking a restricted document out of the establishment the same year. It's alleged she engaged in a personal relationship with Perry, who is now 21, between April 29, 2021 and November 30, the same year. He also appeared in the dock charged with two counts of conspiring to bring drugs and mobiles into the prison, as well as helping to smuggle in cannabis. Indrasiunaite was granted bail while Perry is currently being held in HMP Bristol. Both are expected to appear at Maidstone Crown Court for their preliminary hearings on August 29. It comes as another prison officer, Isabelle Dale, 23, has been accused of having a sexual relationship with two inmates at the same time and plotted with them to smuggle drugs into the jail. She is said to have had an inappropriate relationship with prisoner Shahid Sharif, 33, between September 2021 and December 2022. She is also accused of having a second jailhouse lover, 28-year-old Connor Money, at the same time. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: Girl, four, hit by car and killed walking back from Eid celebration with mum MORE: I bought a £420,000 flat with a friend — and then we fell out MORE: 'Ring of steel' erected after far-right protestors clash outside migrant hotel
Daily Mail
02-08-2025
- Daily Mail
Prison officer 'had personal relationship with 17-year-old young offender behind bars and smuggled in cannabis'
A female prison officer has been accused of having a 'personal relationship' with a teenager more than two decades her junior. Ruta Indrasiunaite, 38, from Mitcham, south London, was accused of having a relationship with then-17-year-old Royston Perry at HMP Cookham Wood, a Young Offenders' Institution in Rochester, Kent, between April and November, 2021. The former prison officer appeared before magistrates in Sevenoaks on July 31 accused of misconduct in public office, bringing a prohibited article to a prison and taking a restricted document out of the establishment the same year. It's alleged she engaged in a personal relationship with Perry, who is now 21, between April 29, 2021 and November 30, the same year. She is said to have brought cannabis into the prison and took a restricted list of approved PIN telephone numbers for a prisoner. She pleaded not guilty to all the offences when she appeared at the court via video link from her home in Mitcham. She was granted permission to appear virtually as she had recently given birth. As two of the offences were indictable only, all three cases were sent to crown court. Perry also appeared in the dock at the same court during a separate hearing via video link from prison. He was charged with two counts of conspiring with another person to bring drugs and mobile phones into jail and and one count of bringing cannabis into the prison. Perry didn't give any indication of pleas in relation to his charges and the cases were also sent to crown court. Indrasiunaite was granted bail while Perry is currently being held in HMP Bristol. Both are expected to appear at Maidstone Crown Court for their preliminary hearings on August 29.
Daily Mirror
01-08-2025
- Daily Mirror
Female prison guard 'had personal relationship with teenage jailed convict'
The age gap in the relationship between the teenage inmate and prison guard at HMP Cookham Wood, a Young Offenders' Institution in Rochester, is 21 years A former prison officer accused of having a personal relationship with a teenage inmate and taking cannabis into prison has denied the allegations. Ruta Indrasiunaite is accused of having a relationship with 17-year-old at HMP Cookham Wood, a Young Offenders' Institution in Rochester, Kent, between April and November 2021. The 38-year-old appeared before magistrates in Sevenoaks on July 31, after being charged with three offences. Indrasiunaite, of Pitcairn Road, Mitcham, Greater London, is accused of misconduct in public office, bringing a prohibited article to a prison and taking a restricted document out of the establishment the same year. It's alleged she engaged in a personal relationship with the convict between April 29, 2021 and November 30, the same year. She allegedly brought cannabis into the establishment and is alleged to have taken a restricted document out of the prison, namely a list of approved PIN telephone numbers for a prisoner, between the same dates. She pleaded not guilty to all the offences when she appeared at the court in Morewood Close, via the Cloud Video Platform (CVP) from her home in Mitcham. She had been granted permission to appear via CVP and not in person because she had just had a baby. The convict was charged with two counts of conspiring with another to bring prohibited articles into the prison, namely drugs and mobile phones, and bringing a prohibited article into the prison, namely cannabis, between the same period. He didn't give any indication of pleas in relation to his charges and the cases were also sent to the crown court to be dealt with. Indrasiunaite was granted bail until then, and both were expected to appear at Maidstone Crown Court for their preliminary hearings on August 29.
