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Prison officer made secret phone calls to an inmate
Burton Mail
|October 25, 2025
HMP DOVEGATE GUARD TALKED WITH MACHETE ATTACKER
A FORMER prison officer has admitted she made illicit phone calls to a violent inmate locked up for severing a man’s leg in a vicious machete attack.
Heather Pinchbeck made secret calls to Joseph Hardy, 31, while working as a guard at Category B jail HMP Dovegate near Uttoxeter. Thug Hardy started a 14-year sentence for GBH in 2017 following a violent attack.
The 28-year-old pleaded guilty to misconduct in a public office at a hearing at Birmingham Crown Court.
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