A probation officer has pleaded guilty to having a relationship with an inmate at UK’s most secure jail.
Bethany Dent-Reynolds had the ‘inappropriate’ tryst with prisoner Kieran Robinson between February 15 and May 3, 2024,’ while working at HMP Belmarsh in Woolwich, southeast London.
Appearing at Woolwich Crown Court, the 27-year-old admitted misconduct in a public office.
In addition to the relationship, the charge also related to causing ‘software, namely Ndelius Record, to perform a function with intent to secure unauthorised access to data held in a computer’.
She denied a second misconduct charge alleging an inappropriate relationship with Robinson between March 1 2024 and April 20 2024.
That charge was dropped.
Dent-Reynolds denied a third charge alleging she caused a computer ‘to perform a function with intent to secure unauthorised access to a program or data held in a computer or to enable any such access to be so secured’ under the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
That charge was ordered to lie on file.
Dent-Reynolds, of Forest Hill, southeast London, was granted unconditional bail ahead of sentence at Woolwich Crown Court on February 6 next year.
Belmarsh is home to a number of high-profile prisoners including Southport killer Axel Rudakubana and Manchester bomb plotter Hashem Abedi.
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