Tag: Alex Coxon

  • 18 female guards sacked for dating inmates

    18 female guards sacked for dating inmates

    The relationships were sexual during the course of the last six years at HMP Berwyn in Wrexham, Wales.

    The remaining women were disclosed as a result of Freedom of Information requests made by The Mirror, while three of the women were sentenced to jail.

    In order to send her lover Alex Coxon, 25, selfies via Snapchat, Jennifer Gavan, 27, smuggled a phone for him in November and was sentenced to eight months in prison in December.

    She was also caught kissing him during the relationship that went on from April to July 2020.

    The officer pleaded guilty to misconduct in public office after she accepted £150 to bring in the phone.

    In 2019, Gunn was jailed for one year after having a fling with ‘dangerous’ inmate Khuram Razaq, 29.

    Jennifer Gavan's mugshot.
    Jennifer Gavan was jailed for eight months after smuggling in a mobile phone for her lover (Picture: Wales News Service)
    Alex Coxon's mugshot.
    Alex Coxon received intimate messages and photos from Gavan (Picture: Wales News Service)
    Ayshea Gunn's mugshot.
    Ayshea Gunn was jailed for one year at Mold Crown Court in 2019 after having an affair with a ‘dangerous’ inmate (Picture: Wales News Service)
    Khuram Razaq's mugshot.
    Khuram Razaq had a pair of Gunn’s knickers smuggled to him via the officer’s bra (Picture: Wales News Service)

    The criminology and psychology graduate made numerous sexual phone calls to him while he was serving a 12-year sentence for conspiracy to rob, and smuggled in a pair of her knickers for the prisoner.

    A search of her bedroom revealed snaps of the pair kissing and hugging while in his cell.

    That same year, Emily Watson was jailed for one year for performing a sex act on prisoner John McGee.

    Mold Crown Court heard she spent so much time with him staff became suspicious and launched an investigation.

    Emily Watson's mugshot.
    Emily Watson was jailed for one year after she performed a sex act on inmate John McGee (Picture: Wales News Service)
    John McGee's mugshot.
    McGee and Watson spent so much time together that staff started to became suspicious (Picture: Wales News Service)

    They had been alone together in his cell on three occasions, when she performed a sex act on him twice and had intercourse once.

    Staff have since been given corruption prevention training and the prison’s security has been enhanced.

    A Prison Service spokesman said: ‘The overwhelming majority of Prison Service staff are hardworking and dedicated and we will not hesitate to punish those who break the rules.

    ‘Over 500 members of staff at HMP Berwyn have undertaken corruption prevention training in the last 18 months and our enhanced security is protecting the prison against attempts to smuggle illicit items inside.’