A girl has been charged with misconduct over a video exhibiting a feminine jail officer apparently having intercourse with an inmate in a Wandsworth jail cell.
Linda De Sousa Abreu, who was revealed to be the lady within the video by MailOnline on Friday, will seem in custody at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court docket on Monday, the Met Police stated.
The power launched an investigation after it was made conscious of the footage on Friday earlier than arresting a girl and taking her into police custody on the identical day.
The surprising clip sees the 30-year-old sporting uniform and begins along with her apparently performing a intercourse act on an unidentified prisoner on the Class B jail in south-west London.
The footage, which MailOnline understands to be current, then seems to exhibits her having intercourse with the prisoner whereas his cellmate movies on a cell phone. Footage of the cell exhibits a TV and piles of garments heaped over a bunk mattress.
A good friend who’s smoking whereas recording says: ‘Guys we have made historical past, that is what I am telling you.’
Linda De Sousa Abreu has been charged with misconduct over a video exhibiting a feminine jail officer apparently having intercourse with an inmate in a Wandsworth jail cell
MailOnline revealed on Friday that the lady within the video was De Sousa Abreu
The lady is seen sporting uniform through the express clip the place she seems to have intercourse with an unidentified prisoner on the Class A jail in south-west London
She is known to have just lately stop her job as a jail officer within the South London jail following the scandal
The jail officer’s radio, left on a aspect desk, crackles consistently along with her colleagues heard on the opposite channels above the din of prisoners on the touchdown unaware of what’s going on within the cell.
At one level, somebody seems to attempt to come into the cell, at which the person filming, could be heard saying to the individual on the opposite aspect of the door ‘give me a minute, one second.’
The prisoner filming tells his good friend to hold on after which pans the digicam spherical momentarily and, grinning, says: ‘That is how we roll in Wandsworth.’
He then tells his good friend having intercourse: ‘ you are gangster innit!’
MailOnline revealed on Friday that the lady within the video was De Sousa Abreu who is known to have just lately stop her job as a jail officer within the South London jail following the scandal.
Greater than 80 jail workers have been sacked or reprimanded since 2013 for having affairs with inmates, in keeping with official statistics.
Ministry of Justice figures reveal that up till final 12 months 59 feminine workers and 24 male staff had been caught.
HMP Berwyn in North Wales had the worst report with 18 feminine workers discovered to have had relationships with inmates for the reason that jail opened in 2017.
HMP Wandsworth was put into particular measures after a damning report by chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor.
Throughout an unannounced go to, he discovered eighty per cent of prisoners sharing cells designed for one individual, 44 per cent testing optimistic for medicine and a few going with out showers for 5 days.
And regardless of the alleged escape of terror suspect Daniel Khalife final 12 months, he stated safety remained a ‘critical concern’, with workers on the ‘chaotic’ wings steadily unable to precisely account for the whereabouts of their prisoners.
Constructed greater than 170 years in the past, Wandsworth is likely one of the oldest and most well-known prisons within the nation. It has had its fair proportion of high-profile inmates, from Oscar Wilde to, extra just lately, tennis star turned bankrupt Boris Becker.
In his warning to ministers calling for the class B jail to be positioned in emergency measures, Mr Taylor described an environment amongst prisoners ‘characterised by a level of despondency that I’ve not come throughout in my time as Chief Inspector’.
He stated workers are hampered by a scarcity of expertise, poor administration and a ‘poor or non-existence relationship’ with prisoners.
He added that many are affected by excessive ranges of ‘burn-out’, with a 3rd unavailable for work every day.
The express clip begins with the lady apparently performing a intercourse act on an unidentified prisoner on the Class A jail in south-west London
Footage of the cell exhibits a TV and piles of garments heaped over a bunk mattress
De Sousa Abreu has now been charged with misconduct, the Met has confirmed
Her sister stated she solely discovered Linda labored for the jail service at first of the 12 months and stated the pair had a coronary heart to coronary heart
Violence is an acute downside contained in the jail, with greater than 10 assaults on workers each week. The inhabitants – which numbered 1,364 two years in the past – had risen this month to 1,513.
‘Wanno’ – as HMP Wandsworth is thought by its inmates – was the place former Wimbledon champion Boris Becker spent his first few weeks after being jailed for hiding £2.5m of property and loans in a chapter fraud case.
Becker, who was later moved to Huntercombe jail in Oxfordshire, stated being a well-known tennis participant meant nothing in a spot the place he was surrounded by ‘murderers, by drug sellers, by rapists, by folks smugglers, by harmful criminals’.
