A former prison officer has been jailed for having romantic relationships with two inmates and plotting to smuggle drug-soaked envelopes into prison.
Isabelle Dale, 23, was working at HMP Coldingley in Surrey when she formed relationships with prisoners Shahid Sharif and Connor Money, telling them she loved them, a court heard. She later had sex with convicted robber Sharif in the prison’s chapel area.
The trial heard Dale became engaged to Sharif and went on to conspire with him and his associate, Lilea Sallis, to smuggle spice, a synthetic cannabinoid, into HMP Swaleside in Kent.
On Tuesday 20 January, Dale was sentenced to three and a half years in prison at Southwark Crown Court after being found guilty of two counts of misconduct in a public office and one count of conspiring to convey a List A prohibited article into prison.
Sharif, who was already serving a sentence, was jailed for a further 27 months, while Sallis received a sentence of two and a half years.
Sentencing the three, Judge Christopher Hehir described Dale as a “thoroughly devious and untruthful and manipulative young woman”. While he accepted she had “some vulnerabilities”, he said she had attempted to use them as an excuse for her actions, adding that he believed she had joined the prison service intending to become involved in criminal activity.
