A DRUG-smuggling prison guard began ‘training as a hairdresser’ after being caught by cops who searched her home. Shamed Rio Moran, 31, was recruited by criminals to simplify their elaborate plot to sneak contraband into HMP Doncaster. But she was rumbled when cops raided her home and found a haul of drugs and phones bound […]
A DRUG-smuggling prison guard began ‘training as a hairdresser’ after being caught by cops who searched her home.
Shamed Rio Moran, 31, was recruited by criminals to simplify their elaborate plot to sneak contraband into HMP Doncaster.
But she was rumbled when cops raided her home and found a haul of drugs and phones bound for the prison.
And as officers scoured the property, dozy “delivery man” Callum Reilly, 30, arrived and tried to post further contraband through the front door.
The 31-year-old guard was arrested when she turned up for a shift at the category B prison in November 2020.
After scuppering her career to sneak drugs and phones into dangerous lags, Moran tried her hand at hairdressing as she awaited trial.
The blonde posted a Facebook status back in July last year asking: “Anyone know any hairdressing salons taking on an apprentice??? Let me know please! Thanks.”
She then shared another post months later calling for models to volunteer for her to style their hair to fulfill the requirements of a college course.
Moran wrote: “If anyone wants their hair doing, coloured, toned, cut, conditioning treatment or just washed and styled etc for next to nothing, give me a message.
“All for college purposes. Thanks”.
The bent screw had only just moved into her new home in Sowerby, West Yorkshire, when she was arrested for the smuggling scheme.
She managed to evade the prison’s security measures due to her role, allowing her to supply James Millington with contraband to flog to other inmates.
One neighbour told The Sun Online: “One week she was moving in with all her stuff, three weeks later the place was crawling in police and she was under arrest.
“We saw a bit of coming and going with visitors in those first weeks, it we assumed it was just friends visiting to see her new home.
One week she was moving in with all her stuff, three weeks later the place was crawling in police and she was under arrest.
Neighbour
“It’s funny to think they were dropping off drugs and stuff for her to smuggling into prison.”
Another resident added: “I said ‘hello’ to her a few times and she was very smiley and bubbly.
“I actually thought she was maybe a police officer because of what I saw her wearing.”
Moran’s former home has been empty since well before Christmas, locals said.
She pleaded guilty to conspiring to supply class B drugs into prison, conspiring to convey list B articles into prison and money laundering.
The 31-year-old was sentenced to two years behind bars, with Judge Richardson warning her to expect a “difficult” time due to her former job.
The items were set to be sent to Millington – whose partner Claire Anderson was also involved in the plot.
Officers then swooped on Anderson’s home and also found a haul of drugs and phones suspected to be bound for the prison.
Millington, 31, of HMP Leeds, pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of class B and C drugs into prison between 2017 and 2020, conspiring to supply class B drugs into prison and conspiring to convey list B articles into prison.
He has now been jailed for seven years and nine months.
Delivery man Reilly, 30, of Stockport, pleaded guilty to supplying a class B drug to Claire Anderson, conspiring to convey list B articles into prison and money laundering.
He has been sentenced to 12 months behind bars.
Anderson, 32, Stockport, pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of Class B and C drugs into prison between 2017 and 2020, conspiring to supply Class B drugs into prison and conspiring to convey List B articles into prison.
Her sentencing was adjourned until March 25.
