Certainly one of Britain’s oldest and most well-known prisons, HMP Wandsworth is now famend for high-profile ‘escapes’, rat infestations and lurid sexual relationships between workers and inmates.
The newest appalling incident, which has led to the arrest of a lady, sees a guard performing a intercourse act on an unidentified prisoner on the Class A jail in south-west London.
The footage then exhibits the girl, revealed by MailOnline to be a swinger named Linda De Sousa Abreu, having intercourse with the prisoner whereas his cellmate movies on a cell phone.
However the video is just the most recent in an extended string of sagas which have plagued the jail, resulting in requires the ‘crumbling, overcrowded and vermin-infested’ jail to revamp its security and safety measures.
Final month a damning evaluation by chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor revealed the squalid actuality of life at HMP Wandsworth the place greater than 1,500 males spend as much as 22 hours a day in cramped, rat-infested cells – with many excessive on medication and in a state of hopelessness and despair.
A lady is seen carrying uniform throughout an specific clip the place she seems to have intercourse with an unidentified prisoner at HMP Wandsworth
The newest saga to hit the Class A jail entails a video which begins with the guard performing a intercourse act on an unidentified prisoner
Wandsworth hit the headlines final 12 months with the alleged escape of 22-year-old terror suspect Daniel Khalife (pictured)
The grim situations inside a cell at HMP Wandsworth revealed in a photograph from a report by the Chief Inspector of Prisons in 2022. The rats and scent of sewage have been known as ‘insufferable’
After setting foot in a jail the place seven inmates have taken their very own lives within the final 12 months alone, Mr Taylor issued an ‘pressing notification’ to ministers warning of the ‘ever-present danger’ of a ‘disaster’.
Chaos on the Class A jail reached the general public consciousness lengthy earlier than the most recent sordid saga when terror suspect Daniel Khalife was alleged to have escaped its grounds final 12 months.
The inmate is claimed to have strapped himself to the underside of a Bidfood supply truck with a makeshift harness created from jail bedsheets.
The previous British Military soldier was initially arrested in January on terrorism costs after plotting a pretend bomb hoax at his military barracks at MoD Stafford and he’s additionally accused of spying for an enemy state, which is known to be Iran.
Khalife, who will stand trial this 12 months, denies one cost of escape, certainly one of committing an act prejudicial to the state, certainly one of eliciting details about members of the Armed Forces and one other of perpetrating a bomb hoax.
And regardless of the soldier’s alleged escape hitting headlines, Mr Taylor shockingly discovered that safety had not improved for the reason that incident.
Ian Acheson, the previous head of safety at HMP Wandsworth and writer of Screwed: Britain’s Jail Disaster and How To Escape It, stated the inspections revealed a jail the place workers had misplaced management.
‘Once we have been working Wandsworth we had the suitable variety of workers who have been skilled and clearly in command of the surroundings,’ he informed MailOnline.
Footage of the cell within the newest video exhibits a TV and piles of garments heaped over a bunk mattress
The pal, who’s smoking whereas recording, says: ‘Guys we have made historical past, that is what I am telling you’
Linda De Sousa Abreu (pictured was revealed to be the guard recorded romping with a prisoner at Wandsworth
She is known to have just lately give up her job as a jail officer within the South London jail following the scandal
Her sister stated Linda and her husband Nathan have been stars of Channel 4’s Open Home: The Nice Intercourse Experiment
‘It was not at all an ideal place however there far fewer assaults on prisoners and much much less suicide, self-harm and despair. One of many major the reason why all that has fallen aside is the overcrowding and the dearth of skilled workers.
‘The jail has descended even additional since Charlie Taylor’s report two years in the past – and that is even after the escape of somebody who was thought-about a menace to nationwide safety.
‘Employees don’t know the place the individuals they’ve unlocked are – in a spot the place individuals have escaped. It is an absolute shambles that ought to cease on the door at Jail Service headquarters.’
Safety just isn’t the one challenge which has plagued the jail, which was constructed greater than 170 years in the past and has had its fair proportion of high-profile inmates, from Oscar Wilde to, extra just lately, tennis star turned bankrupt Boris Becker.
Tales of squalid situations together with rat-infested cells with ‘crumbling’ partitions led Mr Taylor to explain an environment amongst prisoners ‘characterised by a level of despondency that I’ve not come throughout in my time as Chief Inspector’.
On the unannounced go to final month he discovered eighty per cent of prisoners sharing cells designed for one individual, 44 per cent testing constructive for medication and a few going with out showers for 5 days.
Violence additionally continues to be an acute downside contained in the jail, with greater than 10 assaults on workers each week. The inhabitants – which numbered 1,364 two years in the past – had risen final month to 1,513.
‘Wanno’ – as HMP Wandsworth is thought by its inmates – was the place former Wimbledon champion Boris Becker spent his first few weeks after being jailed for hiding £2.5m of belongings and loans in a chapter fraud case.
Becker, who was later moved to Huntercombe jail in Oxfordshire, stated being a well-known tennis participant meant nothing in a spot the place he was surrounded by ‘murderers, by drug sellers, by rapists, by individuals smugglers, by harmful criminals’.
The Victorian gatehouse of HMP Wandsworth, which was inbuilt 1851 because the Surrey Home of Correction
Greater than 80 per cent of prisoners in Wandsworth share cells which might be designed for one individual
The jail was described as ‘crumbling, overcrowded and vermin-infested’ by Mr Taylor throughout his final inspection in 2022 (these images are taken from his report)
An inmate at HMP Wandsworth filmed the within of his cell for a TikTok video in 2022
Cell phones are unlawful inside prisons, however they are often smuggled in by guests or corrupt workers
The clip, filmed on a cell phone, exhibits a cramped cell on the jail
He informed BBC Radio 5 Dwell Breakfast: ‘You combat on daily basis for survival. Rapidly, you must encompass your self with the powerful boys, as I’d name it, since you want safety.’
The brutal realities of life contained in the jail have been uncovered by ex-prisoner Chris Atkins in a e book serialised by The Mail on Sunday.
In the meantime Vanessa Frake, who wrote The Governor about her time within the jail service, informed MailOnline: ‘Wandsworth a as soon as nice jail now recognized for top profile escapes, vermin infestation, violence and even sewage spilling out!
‘It is the various hardworking workers behind these partitions who’ve my sympathy.’
However this time a member of workers was behind a recent furore over the jail’s requirements with a video of a feminine guard having intercourse with an inmate the most recent indication of the chaos which lies behind the jail gates.
A suspect is now being held on suspicion of misconduct on public workplace after police arrested her yesterday.
The wicked clip additionally highlights the provision of medicine within the jail, highlighted by final month’s report, with the person filming the act smoking a joint as he boasts concerning the freedoms prisoners take pleasure in regardless of being behind bars.
The pal jokes: ‘Guys we have made historical past, that is what I am telling you.’
The jail officer’s radio, left on a aspect desk, crackles consistently together with her colleagues heard on the opposite channels above the din of the opposite prisoners on the touchdown unaware of what’s going on within the cell.
At one level, somebody seems to attempt to come into the cell, at which the person filming, might be heard saying to the individual on the opposite aspect of the door ‘give me a minute, one second.’
The prisoner filming tells his pal to hold on after which pans the digicam spherical momentarily and, grinning, says: ‘That is how we roll in Wandsworth.’
He then tells his pal having intercourse: ‘You understand you are gangster innit!’
Yesterday MailOnline revealed the girl within the video was De Sousa Abreu, who alongside together with her husband Nathan Richardson, now 29, have been stars of Channel 4’s Open Home: The Nice Intercourse Experiment through which {couples} pushed the boundaries of the relationships at a luxurious nation escape.
And the Brazilian-born mannequin didn’t maintain again in the course of the present even getting concerned in a 15-person orgy with the man contestants.
The couple additionally boast an OnlyFans account, underneath the alias Linda La Madre which costs $10 a month for racy content material of her and her husband.
The then private coach from Fulham defined in the course of the Channel 4 documentary: ‘Monogamy is a social assemble that I feel must be dismantled.
‘Opening up our relationship has allowed us to kind a deeper reference to one another.’
In response, Ms Frake known as the footage ‘surprising’ and informed MailOnline: ‘That is what is totally flawed with the jail service at the present time!
‘This girl disgraces not solely herself, the uniform and the Jail Service.’
Will the vulgar viral video be the ultimate straw for this vermin-infested, lawless institution? Mr Taylor’s report makes it clear that the place wants an overhaul that goes additional than a latest spate of ‘upgrades’.
In his letter to Justice Secretary Alex Chalk, the inspector stated: ‘The poor outcomes we discovered at Wandsworth are systemic and cultural failures and stemmed from poor management at each degree of the jail, from HMPPS and the Ministry of Justice.
‘Many well-meaning and hard-working leaders and workers persevered at Wandsworth, and their resilience was spectacular, however they have been usually preventing in opposition to a tide of cross-cutting, intractable issues that require complete, long-term options.
‘For this troubled jail to start to get well, Wandsworth wants everlasting skilled leaders in any respect ranges who’re invested in its long-term future to enhance safety, security and information their much less skilled colleagues.
A grimy cell at Wandsworth with graffiti scrawled over the stained partitions
The official visited this month and located some inmates had now showered for 5 days (pictured is a washroom in 2022)
Current inmates at Wandsworth embrace Boris Becker, who’s pictured arriving at court docket in April 2022 along with his companion, Lilian de Carvalho
‘Till this occurs, the chance of an additional disaster, a self-inflicted demise or escape from lawful custody, is ever current.’
Prisons minister Edward Argar stated the ‘deeply regarding report’ exhibits the jail continues to face ‘important challenges’ and it was ‘clear that on prime of the extra assist we have already offered since September to enhance security and safety, together with almost £1 million of upgrades, we have to go additional nonetheless.’
Further skilled workers will likely be added to the jail’s administration staff within the coming weeks to supply the ‘management, tradition change and coaching wanted to show Wandsworth round’, he stated, including: ‘Within the interim we’re deploying extra workers, together with jail officers, to the jail and can set out additional motion shortly.’
