A woman has been charged after a video appearing to show a prison officer having sex with an inmate at HMP Wandsworth emerged. It comes after police said that they had arrested a women yesterday.
She will appear in custody at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court on Monday, July 1. The Metropolitan Police launched an investigation on Friday, June 28, after officers were made aware of a video seemingly filmed inside HMP Wandsworth shared online.
Now, a Met Police spokeswoman has told The Mirror: “A police investigation was launched on June 28 after officers were made aware of a video filmed inside HMP Wandsworth. A woman was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office later that day. Linda De Sousa Abreu, 30, (13/12/93) of Fulham was charged on June 29 with misconduct in public office. She will appear in custody at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court on Monday, July 1.”
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The footage, which MyLondon won’t be sharing, begins with what looks like an officer performing a sex act on a man while a cellmate films the incident.
The officer then appears to stand up and kisses the man on the lips, while a smoking cellmate boasts, ‘this is a movie, gangsters wallahi’. The pair are then seen having sex.
Throughout, messages can be heard coming through via a prison-issued radio. The camera then switches to selfie mode as the smoking cellmate looks on.
The guard then tells the first inmate to ‘sit the f*** down’. The clip ends with the man filming grinning and saying ‘this how we live in Wandsworth [prison] bruv. Yeah.’
A Prison Service spokesperson said yesterday (Friday, June 28): “Staff corruption is not tolerated and the former prison officer allegedly featured in this video has been reported to the police. It would be inappropriate to comment further while they investigate.”
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