Convicted rapist had sordid affair with prison officer

A FEMALE prison officer who became the lover of a dangerous rapist and child sex offender from Cornwall has avoided jail.

- by OLIVER ASTLEY [e-mail] @CornwallLive

Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington became besotted with paedophile Bradley Trengrove after he was moved to HMP The Verne on Portland, Dorset, where she worked.

They embarked on a passionate six-month relationship which involved them having sex in prison workshops while nobody was around. The 29-year-old prison officer even got pregnant by Trengrove, although she lost the baby.

During the affair, Austin-Saddington smuggled a mobile phone into the Category C prison for her lover so they could communicate.

A court heard the mother-of-three saved his name in her mobile under ‘husband to be! When Trengrove, 31, was moved to HMP Channings Wood, in Devon, she visited him using a fake name. She was so infatuated with the convict that she went along with a bizarre plan to get pregnant by him again.

Austin-Saddington, from Weymouth, in Dorset, was given a suspended sentence after pleading guilty to charges of misconduct in a public office only because she has been left wheelchair-bound having suffered a fall.