Prison officer Rebecca Pinckard, 46, launched into a fling with an inmate at HMP Highpoint in Stradishall, Suffolk, and was stated to have “[performed] oral intercourse on that prisoner”
A jail officer is going through jail after admitting having a fling with an inmate and allegedly performing a intercourse act on him.
Rebecca Pinckard, 46, launched into a secret relationship with the prisoner at HMP Highpoint in Stradishall, Suffolk, between April and July 2024. She was arrested and confronted a cost that she “wilfully and with out cheap excuse or justification misconducted herself” in a method which amounted to “an abuse of the general public’s belief”.
The cost states that she did so “by participating in a relationship” with a prisoner she was accountable for, sending a card to him and “performing oral intercourse on that prisoner whereas working as a jail officer”. She pleaded responsible to the offence at Cambridge Crown Court on November 19 and was advised she can be sentenced in January.
During a earlier listening to, Pinckard’s solicitor, Andrew Cookson, stated there have been “factual disputes” within the case towards her, though he didn’t reveal what they have been. Her case was linked with a prisoner referred to as Erion Nakdi, 42, who’s charged with possessing a cell phone in Highpoint jail between July 2 and July 6 final yr.
Nakdi appeared on a video hyperlink from Category D HMP Ford jail close to Arundel, West Sussex, the place he was being held, and pleaded responsible to the cost. It was not disclosed in courtroom whether or not or not he was the prisoner who had allegedly been in a relationship with Pinckard.
The Eastern Region Special Operations Unit (ERSOU) was made conscious of the offence on July 8 final yr. At the time, the ERSOU – made up of workers from seven police forces within the East of England – described the then alleged relationship as “inappropriate”.
Det Insp Puneet Netar, from ERSOU’s regional organised crime unit, advised the BBC: “Rebecca Pinckard clearly abused her place as a jail officer and made a acutely aware choice to enter right into a relationship with an inmate. Public belief within the justice system depends upon integrity, and our workforce works intently with the Prison Service to make sure that, the place misconduct or corruption is going on, these accountable are totally investigated. We will proceed to work alongside associate businesses to focus on those that abuse their place, in order that they’re held accountable.”
Pinckard is the most recent in an extended line of officers to strike up illicit jail trysts with inmates. This week Alicia Novas, 19, admitted having intercourse with a violent robber behind bars and smuggling in hashish for him. She had a four-month fling with 30-year-old Declan Winkless, who was serving an 11-year sentence for aggravated housebreaking.
And final month Isabelle Dale, 23, was discovered responsible of getting a four-minute intercourse session with an inmate in a jail prayer room and having fun with a fling with a second prisoner. She had intercourse with convicted robber Shahid Sharif at HMP Coldingley in Surrey as two prisoners stored watch outdoors.
