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Pictured: Casanova criminal who dated TWO jail officers whereas JAILED

A Casanova criminal who charmed two feminine jail staff into a bootleg love-triangle whereas he was in jail has right this moment been pictured – as his two lovers admitted misconduct in a public workplace. 

Michael Cronshaw, 36, dated Aleesha Bates, 29, and Jodie Wilkes, 27, who have been each working at HMP Buckley Hall, in Rochdale. 

The two girls pleaded responsible to misconduct in public workplace after they appeared right this moment at Bolton Crown Court. Cronshaw, who had been concerned in a automobile crash, was not in courtroom as they admitted the offences.

The legal – who arrived at a earlier listening to sporting a thick gold chain – entered right into a relationship with Bates between December 2019 and June 2020 whereas she labored as a jail officer on the Category C male jail.

The 36-year-old lag lothario then entered right into a second relationship with operational assist grade (OSG) Wilkes between April and June 2020, the courtroom heard. 

Michael Cronshaw, 36, entered into a relationship with Aleesha Bates, 29, and Jodie Wilkes, 27, who were both working at HMP Buckley Hall, in Rochdale

Michael Cronshaw, 36, entered right into a relationship with Aleesha Bates, 29, and Jodie Wilkes, 27, who have been each working at HMP Buckley Hall, in Rochdale

Prison officer Aleesha Bates (left), 29, entered into a relationship with him between December 2019 and June 2020

Prison officer Aleesha Bates (left), 29, entered right into a relationship with him between December 2019 and June 2020

Colleague Jodie Wilkes, 27, joined the love triangle between April and June 2020

Colleague Jodie Wilkes, 27, joined the love triangle between April and June 2020

The OSG function includes ‘supporting the sleek and secure working of the jail’ and speak to with prisoners tends to be restricted.

Cronshaw was attributable to seem within the dock alongside the pair however the courtroom heard he could not attend after being injured in a street site visitors smash.

He’s charged with two counts of deliberately encouraging/aiding the fee on an indictable offence – particularly misconduct in public workplace – by partaking in a relationship, and possessing an unauthorised cell inside a jail.

Judge Martin Walsh, the Honorary Recorder of Bolton, mounted a plea and trial preparation listening to for Cronshaw, of Droylsden, Greater Manchester, for February 1.

He bailed Bates, of Heywood, Rochdale, and Wilkes, of Horwich, Bolton, and adjourned their case for pre-sentence reviews they usually’ll be sentenced on February 13.

But he warned them that it was ‘no indication’ of what sentence they might be given.

The love triangle trio beforehand appeared at Manchester Magistrates’ Court in November. 

Aleesha Bates, 29, is charged with misconduct in public workplace after allegedly ‘partaking in a relationship with a prisoner’ whereas working at HMP Buckley Hall, in Rochdale

Prison colleague Jodie Wilkes, 27, is also charged with the same offence

Prison colleague Jodie Wilkes, 27, can also be charged with the identical offence 

HMP Buckley Hall dates again to the Nineteen Forties however was rebuilt in 1994. It has beforehand been named as certainly one of England and Wales’s most overcrowded jails. 

It is supposed to carry a most of 455 inmates however an inspection final yr discovered 469 the place caged within the jail.  

Dodgy plumbing nearly prompted a ‘full shut down’ on the jail, a report revealed final week. 

Buckley Hall is alleged to be ‘nicely previous its authentic life expectancy’, with main issues with the mains water provide final yr nearly leading to a ‘mass relocation’ of lots of of inmates.