{"id":121026,"date":"2023-10-29T10:51:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T10:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gendermyn.com\/?p=121026"},"modified":"2023-10-29T10:51:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T10:51:40","slug":"nurse-who-had-prison-affair-jailed-for-helping-to-flood-lockup-with-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gendermyn.com\/world-news\/nurse-who-had-prison-affair-jailed-for-helping-to-flood-lockup-with-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurse who had prison affair jailed for helping to flood lockup with drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    A mental health nurse has been jailed for her involvement in what is thought to be the UK's biggest prison drugs conspiracy after she struck up a relationship with an inmate.<\/p>\n

    Amy Hatfield was one of 17 people convicted for struggling illegal substances, weapons and mobile phones into HMP Lindholme, near Doncaster, between 2018 and 2020. Hatfield, 38, had a job as a mental health support worker at the jail at the time, when she became "infatuated" with a "heavily convicted" lag, Joseph Whittingham, in 2018.<\/p>\n

    Hatfield and Whittingham, 35, began a sexual relationship before she was recruited by her lover to be involved in the smuggling. At trial Judge Kirstie Watson said Whittingham "exploited" Hatfield's feelings for him before having banned items, including drugs, delivered to her.<\/p>\n

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    The judge told Hatfield: "When [Whittingham] first expressed feelings for you, instead of reporting it to your supervisors as you were trained to do, you embraced it." Sheffield Crown Court heard the relationship soon involved "sexual activity within the prison and the exchanging of images."<\/p>\n

    The judge added: "It must have been clear to you the impact that increased drug use was having, and yet you continued to flood HMP Lindholme with drugs and phones. You even brought in a knife."<\/p>\n

    In October 2019 Hatfield was stopped and searched on her way into work. Police found she was carrying \u00a31million worth of contraband, including bags of ketamine, spice paper, MDMA, mobile phones and prescription drugs. She was also carrying four Ribena bottles with her which contained a total of about two litres of liquid spice.<\/p>\n

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