{"id":380982,"date":"2026-01-20T21:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/380982\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T21:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:10:10","slug":"prison-officer-jailed-after-having-sex-with-inmate-in-chapel-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/380982\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison officer jailed after having sex with inmate in &#8216;chapel area&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dale, from Portsmouth, started working at HMP Coldingley &#8211; her first and only posting &#8211; in September 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She had had &#8220;at least some contact&#8221; with Sharif by January and the pair were engaged by May, the court heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defending Dale, Syam Soni said her offending was influenced by her mental health difficulties, including depression, anxiety, emotionally unstable personality disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He claimed Dale was &#8220;ill-equipped&#8221; for the prison environment and more vulnerable than others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sharif was at the time serving a 12-year and 10-month sentence for an &#8220;extremely violent robbery of a jewellers on the south coast&#8221;, Judge Hehir said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other prison officers &#8220;obviously had clocked on to what was going on&#8221;, he added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dale, from Portsmouth, started working at HMP Coldingley &#8211; her first and only posting &#8211; in September 2021.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-380982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}