Hannah Angwaba held her head in her hands as she was jailed
A prison officer who was "duped" into a "sham romance" with an inmate convicted of rape attempted to smuggle drugs worth tens of thousands of pounds into a prison for him and his cellmate.
Despite this, she still agreed to bring in the contraband after being "pressured and persuaded" by Crosby man, Julius Marshall, 33, with whom she is also said to have formed a "friendship" and had "inappropriate" contact, reports the Manchester Evening News. Phone records showed that from Christmas Eve 2019, Angwaba had also been texting Marshall. She was subject to intelligence reports within the prison due to her over-familiarity with the two inmates, Manchester Crown Court heard.
It contained two small mobile phones, a charging cable, two SIM cards, two USB memory sticks, two cling-film wraps of cocaine, five cling-film wraps of cannabis, two cling-film wraps of tobacco, and cigarette papers. . After Angwaba discovered McPherson was in a relationship with a woman outside the prison, the prosecution said Marshall assumed the role of "bringing her back from the brink" of abandoning the January 22 smuggle.In an interview, Angwaba stated that Marshall had told her over the phone, "If you're not gonna do it for Anton do it for me."
Andrew Scott, defending Angwaba, highlighted her "traumatic upbringing" and recent diagnoses of emotionally unstable personality disorder , post-traumatic stress disorder , depression and anxiety, which he suggested "will have a trigger which has led to the commission of these offences."He added: "I invite your honour to pass a sentence which will offer Miss Angwaba a glimmer of light in what will be a long and dark tunnel".
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