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Isabelle Dale (pictured) was found to have one inmate’s street name tattooed on her neck<\/p>\n
A former prison officer has been jailed for having romantic relationships with two inmates and plotting to smuggle drug-soaked envelopes into prison.<\/p>\n
Isabelle Dale swore her “undying love” to prisoners Shahid Sharif and Connor Money while working at HMP Coldingley in Surrey, said a judge.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old had sex with convicted robber Sharif in the prison’s chapel area, her trial heard.<\/p>\n
She got engaged to Sharif and later plotted with him and his associate, Lilea Sallis, to smuggle spice, a synthetic cannabinoid, into HMP Swaleside in Kent.<\/p>\n
Dale was sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment for two counts of misconduct in a public office and one count of conspiring to convey a List A article into prison.<\/p>\n
Sharif, who is already in custody, and Sallis were also jailed for the latter charge for 27 months and two and a half years respectively.<\/p>\n
‘She wanted to do it’<\/p>\n
Sentencing the three on Tuesday at Southwark Crown Court, Judge Christopher Hehir called Dale a “thoroughly devious and untruthful and manipulative young woman”.<\/p>\n
He said he accepted she had “some vulnerabilities”, but she had tried to use them as a “shield and an excuse” for her actions.<\/p>\n
The judge added that he suspected she had “joined the prison service with a view to becoming involved in criminal activities with prisoners”.<\/p>\n
“She wanted to do it,” he said. “She’s attention seeking.”<\/p>\n
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Dale swore her “undying love” to two prisoners while working at HMP Coldingley<\/p>\n
Dale, from Portsmouth, started working at HMP Coldingley – her first and only posting – in September 2021.<\/p>\n
She had had “at least some contact” with Sharif by January and the pair were engaged by May, the court heard.<\/p>\n
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
He claimed Dale was “ill-equipped” for the prison environment and more vulnerable than others.<\/p>\n
Sharif was at the time serving a 12-year and 10-month sentence for an “extremely violent robbery of a jewellers on the south coast”, Judge Hehir said.<\/p>\n
Other prison officers “obviously had clocked on to what was going on”, he added. <\/p>\n
‘Throughly corrupt’<\/p>\n
After the chapel incident, Sharif moved to Swaleside prison and Dale signed off work sick on reduced pay.<\/p>\n
Dale visited him five times between September and October 2022, sometimes with his family members, the court was told.<\/p>\n
She had joined his list of approved visitors by concealing her job role, the judge said.<\/p>\n
He added Dale showed she had become “thoroughly corrupt” when she tried to persuade Sharif’s sister to sneak in a USB into prison for him, though the sibling declined. <\/p>\n
Dale – who was found to have Sharif’s street name tattooed on her neck – resigned as a prison officer before she was arrested on her sixth visit.<\/p>\n
The court heard Dale also conveyed sensitive information to Money, with whom she also had an intimate relationship.<\/p>\n
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Dale had been involved in a plan to bring drugs into HMP Swaleside (pictured) <\/p>\n
A postal strike foiled Dale, Sharif and Sallis’ plan to bring envelopes dipped in spice into Swaleside prison on the Isle of Sheppey.<\/p>\n
It was organised for Dale to travel to Brighton to meet Sallis and collect the envelopes, the court heard.<\/p>\n
However, Sallis backed out because of a conflict with Sharif about prices and content he was posting about her on social media, the judge said.<\/p>\n
Sharif had claimed in messages he could make \u00a33,000 a week from selling the spice inside jail, which the judge said may have been an exaggeration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PA Media Isabelle Dale (pictured) was found to have one inmate’s street name tattooed on her neck A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-381046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381046","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=381046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}