A former prison officer has been locked up for having love affairs with inmates and plotting to smuggle drugs behind bars.
Love Behind Bars
Isabelle Dale, 23, was working at HMP Coldingley in Surrey when she struck up romantic relationships with inmates Shahid Sharif and Connor Money. The court heard Dale told the prisoners she loved them and even had sex with Sharif, a convicted robber, in the prison chapel.
She later got engaged to Sharif and teamed up with him and associate Lilea Sallis to smuggle spice, a synthetic cannabinoid, into HMP Swaleside in Kent.
Sentenced to Jail
On Tuesday, January 20, Southwark Crown Court sentenced Dale to three and a half years for two counts of misconduct in a public office and conspiring to smuggle prohibited drugs.
Sharif, already behind bars, got an extra 27 months, while Sallis was handed two and a half years.
Judge’s Scathing Words
Judge Christopher Hehir called Dale a “thoroughly devious and untruthful and manipulative young woman”. He said she downplayed her actions by blaming her “vulnerabilities” but believed she joined the prison service to get involved in criminal activity.
