Female prison officer, 23, who tipped off inmate about cell search when she fell in love with him after he messaged her on Instagram using illegal phone is jailed for 16 months
- Besotted Aisha Golsby told her prison boyfriend she trusted him with her heart
- The 21-year-old tipped off convicted robber Deano Harrison about cell searches
- Golsby, of Weymouth, was sacked from HMP Portland and has now been jailed
A crooked female prison officer who fell in love with an inmate and tipped him off about a cell search has been jailed for 16 months.
Aisha Golsby, 23, was working at HMP Portland in Dorset when she became involved with convict Deano Harrison.
Harrison, 21, who has convictions for robbery and drug dealing, struck up the illicit relationship with glamourous Golsby by messaging her on Instagram with a phone illegally smuggled into jail.
The besotted pair called and messaged each other, with the prisoner gushing he had ‘never felt love like it’ before while she wrote of how she trusted him with her heart.
While Golsby filed reports to her prison bosses about other inmates having mobile phones, she failed to do so for Harrison because of her feelings for him.
She even went as far as tipping off her jailed lover that a team of her colleagues were conducting cell searches so he could hide his phone.
Aisha Golsby, 23, was working at HMP Portland in Dorset when she became involved with convict Deano Harrison
Besotted Golsby told her prison boyfriend that she trusted him with her whole heart – as she shielded him from cell searches by her colleagues
The crooked prison officer has now been jailed for 16 months over her illicit affair with an inmate at HMP Portland. Golsby is pictured leaving Poole Magistrates’ Court
His mobile was finally found and a search of it by Golsby’s shocked colleagues revealed the relationship between her and Harrison.
Golsby, from Weymouth, Dorset, was arrested and interviewed. She was suspended from her job before handing in her resignation two months later.
She pleaded guilty to three counts of misconduct in a public office and was jailed at Bournemouth Crown Court.
Golsby started working at the HMP Portland in April 2020, when she was just 19-years-old. Harrison initially made contact with her through Instagram in August 2021.
Prosecutor Kaj Scarsbrook, said there ‘was no physical or sexual contact on prison premises’ but added that the messages between the pair ‘speak for themselves’.
‘One message from the prisoner to the defendant said “I have not felt like this about anyone. I never thought it would get deep, I didn’t think I would get attached to you. I’ve never felt love for someone in such a small amount of time”,’ he told the court.
The search of his phone showed Golsby sent Harrison a message in January 2022, when she was concerned someone had found out about them saying ‘I trusted you with my whole f***ing heart, I really hope what you are saying is true’.
There were also 11 phone calls logged between them from January 23 until the phone was discovered in a cell search on January 28.
Golsby started working at the HMP Portland (pictured) in April 2020, when she was just 19-years-old. Harrison initially made contact with her through Instagram in August 2021
Golsby, from Weymouth, Dorset, was arrested and interviewed. She was suspended from her job before handing in her resignation two months later.
Harrison was moved to another prison but made several attempts to contact Golsby, with letters being intercepted by the prison service.
Golsby also sent him messages printed through Free Prints saying she was thinking of him in ‘affectionate terms’.
Hollie Gilbery, defending, told the court Golsby was a hardworking young woman with no previous convictions and very clear remorse ‘at her own stupidity’.
She sought to persuade judge Jonathan Fuller to give Golsby a suspended sentence. But in jailing her for 16 months he said misconduct in the prison service must be dealt with seriously by the courts.
‘You underwent training courses which dealt with anti-corruption issues, you would have been fully aware of the duties and responsibilities placed on you as a prison officer, especially in respect of relationships with prisoners,’ the judge said.
‘You also had a clear understanding of the reasons for that training and the very damaging effect failure to follow those rules can have on the security of the prison state and the public trust in the prison service.
‘You tipped him off that a designated search team were coming. That enabled him to try and hide the prohibited item, that was subverting the good order of the running of the prison.’
Harrison pleaded guilty to having a banned item, the mobile phone, in prison and had six months added to his previous sentence in July last year.
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