A female prison officer who was caught on camera having sex with an inmate in a store cupboard has been jailed for 16 months.
Shania Begum, 25, was found to have slept with with Joshua Mulllings after striking up an ‘inappropriate relationship’ while working at HMP Birmingham.
A court heard she used the store cupboard to engage in ‘play fighting, flirting, heavy petting and penetrative sex’ with the inmate at the Category B men’s prison.
But their secret rendezvous were rumbled when prison bosses became suspicious and installed a camera which caught them in the act.
Begum, of Telford, Shropshire, previously admitted misconduct in a public office and was jailed at Birmingham Crown Court today.
Sentencing, Judge John Butterfield said: ‘As time went by you fell under suspicion and secret surveillance cameras were set up in the store cupboard.’
‘You and he repeatedly spent time together in that store cupboard to be physically intimate, up to and including penetrative physical acts,’ he added.
‘You were observed engaging in consensual activity whilst on duty.’ He said what she had done had a ‘corrosive effect’ on the prison system.
Begum’s (pictured) defence lawyer said: ‘She is of previous good character and almost at a loss to explain her conduct. She is deeply remorseful.’
–London Mail online
