A female prison officer has become the subject of a police investigation after being filmed engaging in a sexual act with an inmate inside a cell at Wandsworth Prison, Britain’s second-biggest prison in south London.
The officer was captured in a video, over four minutes long, performing a lewd act and having sex with a prisoner as her discarded radio crackled with messages in the background.
The footage, reportedly filmed by another inmate using an illegally-held phone, has been circulating among inmates. The inmate recording the video can be heard joking, “This is how we live at Wandsworth.”
The video shows the guard on her knees performing a sexual act on an inmate, whose grey shorts were pulled down. A second inmate, visible on camera and apparently smoking a joint, comments: “This is a movie innit – gangsters online.”
The prison officer, who appears to be in her 20s and no longer works for the prison service, is then seen removing her black jail-issue trousers and having sex with the inmate against the cell door. Despite radio messages in the background, she continues the act, ignoring the device.
The second inmate, with a beard, holds the suspicious cigarette in view of his camera and says: “This is how we live at Wandsworth, bruv. Yeah.” As the pair stand up, he adds: “No one’s coming through by door, bro. I will fight them. No one’s coming – do your thing bro. You know we are family.”
This incident follows a report last month by HM Inspector of Prisons, which stated that Wandsworth Prison, housing more than 1,500 inmates, needs “urgent improvement” amid a surge in violence. The prison’s governor, Katie Price, resigned during the inspection, which highlighted “systemic and cultural failures that stemmed from poor leadership.”
