A woman is to appear in court after a video was shared on social media allegedly showing a prison officer having sex with an inmate in a cell.
Linda De Sousa Abreu, 30, of Fulham, south-west London, has been charged with misconduct in public office, the Metropolitan police said.A police investigation was launched on Friday after officers were made aware of a video said to have been filmed inside HMP Wandsworth. An arrest was made later that day and De Sousa Abreu was charged on Saturday, police added.
It is not known when the footage, which appeared to show an officer initially in full uniform, was filmed. The arrest came less than two months after the prisons watchdog wrote to the justice secretary, Alex Chalk, with an urgent notification for improvement at the jail. Charlie Taylor, the chief inspector of prisons, said the findings of a recent inspection were “deeply concerning”, with “chaotic” prison wings and staff being unable to “accurately account for their prisoners during the working day”. The prison’s governor, Katie Price, resigned during the inspection.
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