Joe Chapman, who worked at Cookham Wood prison in Kent, told podcaster James English that the prison held regular 'Lifers Day' events where staff were allowed to bring family members in to meet the inmates
A former prison officer allowed Myra Hindley to look after his daughter during a "take your kids to work day" with the notorious child murderer sending her a letter afterwards.
Describing the day, Joe said: "She was taken under their wing by the women in the lifer unit, all of whom I'd known for nearly a year. She enjoyed Cookham, she went to the hair dressing salon first, and had her nails done and what have you, and then they took her and she did a bit of cooking." "Then there was a knock on the door," Joe recalled. "I think it was a principal officer or somebody and they said 'Myra's off on her way out and she's wondering if Sophie can go down to the gym she's going down to use the trampoline... in actual fact Myra wasn't going with the principal officer she was going with Nina Wilde who later became her lover."
Despite the chilling thought of leaving a child with a notorious murderer, Joe insists it was the right choice, telling James English, "if Sophie were here today she'd say the same thing".
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