Prison officer calling herself ‘Queen’ had ‘intimate’ relationship with inmate

A prison officer who admitted to having an ‘intimate’ relationship with an inmate, called herself ‘your queen’ and boasted about performing a sex act on him.

Katie Evans, 26, who appeared at Sheffield Crown Court on Friday after pleading guilty to misconduct in a public office, now faces jail.

Prosecutor Matthew Burdon told the court Evans communicated with the inmate at Doncaster Prison more than 140 times using a SIM card which had been smuggled into the jail by somebody else.

Mr Burdon said records showed she had 39 conversations with the man on just one day, with one call lasting 49 minutes.

He said Evans had boasted to an ex-prison officer that she had performed oral sex on the inmate.

He told the court she referred to herself as ‘your queen’ when talking to the defendant.

He said the wording of the charge Evans had admitted to referred to ‘engaging in an inappropriate and intimate relationship with an inmate’.

Asked by Judge Jeremy Richardson KC whether this meant a ‘sexual’ relationship, he said: ‘I’m not sure whether ‘sexual’ is accepted by the defendant but certainly “intimate” is accepted.’

Edward Moss, defending, told the judge that the relationship happenedin 2020, when Evans was 21.

He said the mother of one was ‘immature and vulnerable’ and had not been a prison officer for long when she was contacted by the inmate.

Mr Moss said: ‘This is a young lady who is absolutely ashamed of her behaviour.’

Judge Richardson told Evans, who sobbed in the dock throughout the hearing, that he needed to examine case law carefully before sentencing her next week.

Remanding her in custody, he told her that her conduct went ‘from bad to worse’ when she moved from communicating with the prisoner to an ‘intimate relationship’ which included ‘sexual conduct of a particularly disagreeable kind’.

He told her: ‘I’m afraid my view at the moment, subject to me reading the relevant authorities, is that you must go to prison immediately. The only issue I have to decide is for how long.’

Evans, of Hatfield, Doncaster will be sentenced on Tuesday.

In January this year prison officer Linda De Sousa Abreu was sentenced to 15 months in prison after she was filmed having sex with an inmate.

Footage of De Sousa Abreu and prisoner Linton Weirich having sex at HMP Wandsworth in south London was widely shared on social media last summer.

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