Feminine jail officer, 21, ‘had affair with an inmate whereas working at two prisons’, court docket hears

A younger lady jail officer has denied having an affair with an inmate, a court docket heard as we speak. 

Megan Breen, 21, is accused of an ‘inappropriate relationship’ with the unnamed prisoner whereas working at two prisons.

Breen denied misconduct in a public workplace and a second cost of illegally accessing a pc when she appeared in court docket.

Breen was working at each the class C jail HMP Usk and close by open jail HMP Prescoed, each in Gwent, South Wales, when the alleged offences have been comitted. 

The primary cost said: ‘Whereas appearing as a public officer, specifically a jail officer, wilfully and with out affordable excuse or justification misconducted your self in a approach which amounted to an abuse of the general public’s belief within the workplace holder by having a relationship with a prisoner.’

The second cost says that she ‘Trigger a pc to carry out operate to safe unauthorised entry to a programme or information held inside the pc.’

The allegations are mentioned to have taken place between February and Could 2022.

Breen spoke solely to enter not responsible pleas in the course of the brief listening to at Cardiff Crown Courtroom and the case was adjourned.

Decide, Recorder of Cardiff Tracey Lloyd-Clarke, mentioned the trial would happen in November this 12 months.

Class C jail Usk homes 280 inmates and is managed collectively with open jail HMP Prescoed which is three miles away and homes offenders serving the ultimate time period of their sentences earlier than being launched.