A prison officer sobbed in court today as she was told she faces a ‘substantial’ jail sentence for brazenly carrying on with two inmates and sneaking drugs in for one of them.
Isabelle Dale, 23, posted two other inmates as lookouts while she had sex with convicted robber Shahid Sharif, 33, in the multi-faith prayer room at HMP Coldingley in Surrey.
Dale, who was 19 or 20 at the time, got Sharif’s nickname ‘Sneaks’ tattooed on the back of her neck, called herself ‘Miss Sneaky’ and hung a framed picture of them above her bed.
Meanwhile she was also in a sexual relationship with Connor Money, 28, who was serving nine years for killing his best friend by crashing his car while fleeing from police at 147mph.
Prosecutors said Dale and Sharif used the prayer room because it ‘is not covered by CCTV’.
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They were seeen entering the room together and leaving after four minutes, with Dale ‘appearing to readjust her belt’.
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Sharif later texted her: ‘It was good sharing dat love today ur p**** [is] ammaazzzeeeingggggg.’
He was transferred to another prison but she kept in touch with him by phone and the ’email a prisoner’ system, also sending him money and paying him ‘social visits’ during which they were caught on CCTV kissing and hugging.
Dale also bought herself a £3,000 engagement ring for him to give her when he was free.
She then smuggled synthetic cannabis, or ‘Spice’, using love letters in which she told him of her dreams of their life together on the outside.
The 23-year-old soaked the letters in a liquid form of the drug, using a special type of paper that would conceal it from prison x-ray machines.
She was taught how to do so by Sharif, who had told her there was ‘big bread’ to be made selling Spice in prison and boasted he could make around £1,600 per envelope.
‘I literally worship the ground you walk on, you are my best friend, my motivation, the reason I keep fighting,’ she wrote.
‘I will do anything I can to help you and that’s because the love runs deep.’
Dale used Sharif’s drug-dealing Snapchat account to source the drug from an associate, Lilea Sallis, 27, from whom she made collections in Brighton.
Her relationship with Money was uncovered when police arrested her and searched through her phone.
In one text Money asked ‘when will I get to feel them sexy lips around my hard d*ck’, to which Dale replied: ‘When you know you want me and only me lol xx’.
Messages with at least two other prisoners were also found on Dale’s phone.
The 23-year-old, who was just months into the job when she started her relationship with Sharif, said she gravitated towards the affection of inmates because her colleagues would mock her extensive tattoos.
She denied having sex with Sharif but admitted having ‘phone sex’ with him.
She told jurors she had bum-enhancing surgery on his instructions after he regularly ‘degraded’ her about her body, developing septic abcesses after it was botched.
Dale also denied having sex with Money, claiming she only sent him flirty messages to appease him after he ‘threatened to stab me’ and ‘told me he hated me and wanted me to die’.
Dale was convicted of two counts of misconduct in a public office and conspiracy to convey a ‘List A’ prohibited article into prison.
Sallis was also convicted on the same smuggling charge.
They were granted unconditional bail ahead of sentencing, with the judge telling them: ”You have been convicted of very grave offences indeed. I can see no alternative to a substantial custodial sentence.’
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