The former chair of a prison watchdog had inappropriate relationships with three inmates and smuggled in drugs and other banned items.
Helen Spree, 63, was responsible for checking prisoners were treated in a ‘just’ and ‘humane’ manner in her role as head of the independent monitoring board at Walton jail in Liverpool.
She was entitled to carry her own set of prison keys and visit inmates at any time as part of the voluntary position.
Instead, the former sales director abused her trusted role by ferrying in so many packages that she described herself as ‘the prison version of Deliveroo’, a court heard today.
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