Prison officer's secret relationship revealed during an IT check

‘FOOLISH’ WORKER SENT INTIMATE PHOTOS TO INMATE

- By MARK NAYLOR

A FEMALE prison custody officer sent intimate and revealing pictures of herself to a prisoner - including some of her wearing red underwear - during a secret relationship with him.

But their steamy sexualised exchanges were discovered after suspicions were aroused when sample emails were analysed.

The pictures were compared with photographs of female prison staff and they were matched to the officer involved, Hull Crown Court heard. Beverley Frank, 42, admitted an offence of misconduct in public office while working as a prison officer at HMP Millsike, a new men’s prison at Full Sutton, near Pocklington, between August 26 and September 21 last year.

Michael Masson, prosecuting, said that sample emails, text messages and telephone calls were analysed by the head of IT at the prison as part of monitoring the external communications of prisoners. On September 15, sample emails were examined from one prisoner as part of the monitoring.

They seemed to show that he had entered into a relationship with a woman supposedly known as “Jess Richardson”. The emails included pictures of her wearing red underwear and she had part of her face showing in the images.

She had a tongue piercing. There were also messages from a woman supposedly known as “Jess Love” who seemed to know about the processes inside the prison.