Police have launched an investigation after video footage has emerged of a female prison guard having sex with an inmate at HMP Wandsworth.
The video, which has been widely shared on social media shows the woman, wearing a uniform, engaging in what appears to be a sex act with a criminal in a jail cell.
Footage then shows the officer having sex with the prisoner while his cellmate films the scenes on a mobile phone. A TV and piles of clothes heaped over a bunk bed can be seen in the background while the act takes place.
The prisoner filming the act can be heard saying: ‘Guys we’ve made history, this is what I’m telling you.’
At one point, someone appears to try to come into the cell, at which the man filming can be heard telling them ‘give me a minute, one second.’
The prisoner then tells his friend to carry on and then pans the camera round to his face, telling the viewer: ‘This is how we roll in Wandsworth.’
‘You know you’re gangster innit!’ he then tells his friend.
It is unknown when exactly the incident took place, but it is believed to have happened recently. However, the woman featured in the video has been confirmed to no longer work there.
A spokesman for HMP Prison Service said: ‘Staff corruption is not tolerated and the former prison officer allegedly featured in this video has been reported to the police. It would be inappropriate to comment further while they investigate.’
The Met Police said: ‘We have been made aware of a video allegedly filmed inside HMP Wandsworth.
‘A police investigation is underway. At this early stage there have been no arrests. We are in close contact with the Ministry of Justice.’
Former prison governor Ian Acheson said the footage raised serious security concerns.
He told the MailOnline: ‘If this footage is authentic and I’ve been assured it is, the problems confronting a likely new Labour administration go far beyond overcrowding.
‘This is a national law enforcement agency. The idea that recruits to it would even contemplate let alone participate in sex acts is a stunning indictment of the utter chaos inside this prison. It won’t be an isolated incident.
Mr Acheson told the publication:’The state is no longer in charge here. The security implications and corruption threat is obvious and as explicit as the flagrant acts. The widespread infiltration of illicit mobile phones will mean that this footage is seen by huge numbers of prisoners.
‘How are decent female officers supposed to feel safe to do their jobs in an environment where colleagues willingly participate in their sexual humiliation and exploitation?’
More than 80 prison staff have been sacked or reprimanded since 2013 for having affairs with inmates, according to official statistics.
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