Five feminine jail guards from identical space jailed for romps with inmates
The roll call of female prison officers have hit headlines, as they all come from one small area of South Yorkshire, with five unrelated cases of the guards hooking up with convicted criminals for secret sex romps.
A number of women have been convicted for illicit relationships with inmates(Image: BPM MEDIA)
Five female prison guards have come under the spotlight for conducting sordid and seedy affairs with criminals who have been locked up behind bars – and they’re all from the same area.
The roll call of female prison officers have hit headlines, as they all come from one small area of South Yorkshire, with five unrelated cases of the guards hooking up with convicted criminals for secret sex romps.
Five corrupt young guards all lived within barely six miles of one another in the former colliery communities of Bentley, Stainforth and Hatfield and all have been caught trying to cheat the system – hooking up with men who have been jailed for a variety of crimes from drug dealings to stabbings.
Jahvine Kwamba arrives at Leicester Crown Court for sentencing after pleading guilty to two counts of misconduct in judicial or public office(Image: BPM MEDIA)
A total of 15 prison officers were convicted last year over inappropriate relationships with inmates – more than twice the number in 2024, according to Ministry of Justice statistics.
The latest to be convicted is Jahvine Kwamba, 21, who was jailed this month after starting an affair with a convicted drug dealer who styled himself as the ‘Latvian Pablo Escobar’.
Kwamba, 19 at the time, became involved with prisoner Roberts Sokolovs, a convicted drug dealer, while working at HMP Fosse Way in Leicestershire.
Sokolovs was serving a six-year sentence at the Category C prison and was moved onto a wing where she worked, when they started sharing messages on Snapchat.
Roberts Sokolovs, 22, bragged about his exploits by referring to himself as the “Latvian Pablo Escobar”(Image: BPM MEDIA)
The 21-year-old then stayed in touch with the crook when he was moved to an immigration removal centre for deportation to his Latvian homeland – sending further messages, including a string of sexually explicit ones.
In one, Kwamba she wrote: ‘So horny for you I swear.’ Kwamba was caught and jailed for eight months at Leicester Crown Court after admitting misconduct in a public office, but still to this day she denies there being a physical relationship.
Judge Tim Spencer, KC, said her crimes ‘struck at the heart of the criminal justice system’ when he passed sentence last week.
He said: “The moment you begin such a relationship you expose yourself to all sorts of risk, not least blackmail, or coercion by him or other prisoners.”
Charlotte WInstanley boasted about daily sex sessions(Image: Facebook)
Others to be caught include Charlotte Winstanley and pal Farr Varney. In 2022, the pair worked at HMP Lindholme. They were both having relationships with prisoners, but kept it quiet from each other.
There they underwent anti-corruption training and were tasked with maintaining order among the 900 inmates inside the Category C jail, but within months both women had embarked on illicit affairs.
Farr Varney, now 27, fell head over heels with Jordan Stones, a convicted crack cocaine dealer serving more than five years.
Farr Varney was dating a man behind bars(Image: ITV)
She was caught when she was spotted slipping into a cupboard for sex, with love letters later found. Winstanley was conducting her own affair with Jabhari Blair, a gang member serving 12-and-a-half years for stabbing a man.
The pair exchanged explicit WhatsApp and Snapchat messages, in which Winstanley told him she was “literally praying” to have his baby.
Their two secret worlds collided when prison officials and police launched investigations, and ended up finding out the truth about each other.
Farr said Winstanley would brag about having ‘sex daily’ but never disclosed who it was, referring to him only as ‘B’. Only after Winstanley was arrested and escorted from Lindholme did Farr Varney finally put ‘two and two together’.
Charlotte Winstanley had a three-month fling with convicted thug Jabhari Blair(Image: Facebook )
Farr Varney was jailed for ten months in May 2025 after admitting misconduct in public office while Winstanley was jailed for two-and-a-half years at Sheffield Crown Court in February after admitting the same offence.
Another to be caught was Katie Evans became embroiled with convicted robber Daniel Brownley while working at HMP Doncaster.
Evans, then 21, boasted about performing sex acts on the criminal inside the category B prison and collecting drugs cash on his behalf with her sex trysts only unveiled when an anti-corruption investigation into another crooked guard took place.
Sked was part of a bigger conspiracy(Image: South Yorkshire Police / SWNS)
Sheffield Crown Court heard how Evans called herself ‘your queen’ while talking to Brownley during explicit calls. She was jailed in March last year for 21 months.
The fifth officer to be convicted of misconduct was Victoria Sked, who was working at HMP Lindholme when she was searched arriving for work in August 2018. Inside an open Pot Noodle container in her bag were two clingfilm-wrapped packages.
A further search revealed steroids, phones, tobacco, nicotine and MDMA concealed in her clothing, while cannabis had been hidden internally.
And it was then found that Sked was part of a much bigger conspiracy involving prisoners, relatives and accomplices outside the jail who were supplying her with drugs and other contraband to take inside the prison walls.
She eventually admitted drug-smuggling and money-laundering offences and was jailed for three years and 11 months in December 2024.
HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, Charlie Taylor, suggested inadequate vetting and training was enabling criminals to exploit young recruits. He said: “What they’ll do is that a new member of staff will start.
“They’ll set a couple of prisoners on him or her. Start bullying them, giving them a really hard time, being a bit crazy with them, and then some very charming person will come along and say, ‘Leave them alone.
“How dare you speak to her like that. Don’t worry, love, you’re with me.’ By then they’ve already begun to reel that person in and begin a collusive-type relationship. And that immediately is something that sophisticated prisoners can start to try and exploit.”
A Prison Service spokesman previously said: “The majority of prison staff are honest and hard-working, regardless of their age.
“We are catching more of the minority who break the rules through our Counter-Corruption Unit and stronger vetting. Where officers fall below our high standards, we do not hesitate to take robust action.”
