18 Female Guards At UK's Biggest Prison Sacked For Illegal Dating Of Inmates.
Staff at the prison now have to undergo compulsory training to tackle the issue
3 female guards jailed for flings with inmates at HMP Berwyn, Wrexham, Wales
The category C resettlement and training prison accommodates 2,100 men
A group of prison wardens from a single jail have been given the sack after it was discovered they were having sexual interactions with inmates.
Figures discovered in Freedom of Information requests found that the relationships took place over the past six years at HMP Berwyn, Britain's biggest prison.
The information follows three of the women ending up in court following the illicit liaisons at the Wrexham jail in North Wales.
Mark Fairhurst, chair of the Prison Officers' Association, blamed the relationships on the hiring of 'the wrong kind of women'.
He told the Mirror: 'Staff being recruited don't have face-to-face interviews… it's all done on Zoom.
Eighteen female guards at HMP Berwyn in Wrexham, North Wales a Category C prison, have been fired for having illicit affairs with inmates
Eighteen female guards at HMP Berwyn in Wrexham, North Wales a Category C prison, have been fired for having illicit affairs with inmates
'A lot of people getting these jobs don't have enough life experience and are susceptible to conditioning from prisoners.
'Your figures just prove what we've been warning the employer about for years.'
Among the guards guilty of initiating relationships with prisoners at £250 million super prison which houses Category C adult male offenders was Jennifer Gavan, 27, Ayshea Gunn, 27, and Emily Watson, 26.
Most recently, Gavan was jailed for eight months in December following her relations with prisoner Alex Coxon, 25.
She had sent intimate photos of herself to prisoner Coxon on Snapchat and kissed him during the relationship between April and July 2020.
She also smuggled a mobile phone behind bars for Coxon.
Gavan, of Llay, Wrexham, pleaded guilty to misconduct in public at Mold Crown Court after she accepted £150 to bring in the mobile phone.
The relationship came just one year after fellow officer Ayshea Gunn, 27, had a fling with 'dangerous' inmate Khuram Razaq, 29.
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