Prison officer advised prisoner to ‘cease’ when he tried to have telephone intercourse

A ‘very fairly’ jail officer repeatedly advised a jailed gangster to ‘cease’ when he tried to have telephone intercourse along with her from his cell, a courtroom was advised.

Ruth Shmylo is accused of getting a five-month fling with drug supplier Harri Pullen, 25, whereas she was working as a jail officer.

But the 26-year-old stated she was frightened of Pullen, a member of an organised crime gang, so wished to ‘give the impression’ she was his buddy, the courtroom heard.

Shmylo advised police she had engaged in telephone intercourse with Pullen – after which advised the jury the inmate tried to provoke it ‘a handful of instances’ however she cried and advised him to ‘cease’.

The jail officer stated Pullen had ‘fixated’ on her whereas working on the jail, repeatedly advised her he liked her and threatened to kill her brother-in-law and her cats.

Shmylo advised Cardiff Crown Court Pullen would ring her as much as 70 instances a day regardless of her makes an attempt to chop him off.

She was sacked from her job at HMP Parc in Bridgend and Pullen moved to a different jail after officers on the G4S-run jail over their alleged affair.

Claire Wilks, defending, requested Shmylo: ‘You advised the police in your interview about telephone intercourse. How many instances did that occur please?’ to which she replied ‘a handful of instances’.

She stated: ‘The first time once I got here to remember Harri was masturbating I requested him to cease. I repeatedly requested him to cease and I cried.

‘It made him actually offended and his precise phrases had been: ‘You’re making out like I’m form of nonce.

‘It was like I had insulted him as a result of I used to be crying and I used to be repeatedly saying: ‘I’m not doing this I’m not doing this.’

When telling the courtroom how Pullen turned ‘fixated’ along with her, she stated: ‘I by no means wished to offer him the flawed impression. Harri Pullen is a fantasist.

‘I might by no means be pals with any person who threatened to kill my household, kill me, threaten me. I’d by no means be pals with Harri Pullen. If I might give the impression I cared about him it was the most secure strategy to preserve me and my household secure.’

The jail officer stated she tried to chop him off however he did not cease calling her.

She stated: ‘I needed to reply the telephone at that time. He was by no means going to cease ringing me.’

Shmylo was requested why she did not inform jail bosses Pullen was ringing her in a gathering the place she was being quizzed over her alleged affair.

She stated: ‘It wasn’t secure for me to take action, all of the employees and prisoners had been conscious I used to be going to my probationary assembly. If one thing occurred, Harri Pullen would have recognized it was me.’

Pullen and Shmylo’s alleged romance started after he handed a cellular quantity to her on a slip of paper contained in the jail.

Shmylo advised police she thought the quantity was a ‘joke’ however engaged in calls with Pullen after he threatened her.

But she was sacked from her job and Pullen moved to a different jail after officers on the G4S-run jail turned suspicious.

Calls Pullen produced from HMP Manchester – often known as Strangeways – to Shmylo had been then recorded with Pullen repeatedly telling her ‘I really like you.’

Shmylo was arrested in July 2021 and transcripts from her interview with officers had been learn at her misconduct trial.

After being advised of the allegations, she advised officers: ‘I wasn’t in a relationship with Harri Pullen.

‘I had a great rapport with him. At one level when he was on my wing he handed a quantity to me.

‘I stated to him ‘what’s that?’ he stated ‘you understand what it’s’ I stated ‘you are having fun’ and left it at that.’

She stated Pullen then advised her: ‘I’m a critical man’.

She advised the officers jail bosses advised her complaints had been made that she had ‘made sexual advances’ to prisoners.

She stated: ‘Obviously they had been unfaithful.’

Shmylo advised police that Pullen threatened her saying: ‘Nobody rejects me. Look at me I’m a f***ing mannequin.’

She advised police that when she rejected Pullen he threatened her brother-in-law who labored in one other a part of the jail.

She stated: ‘He made a number of threats to me since then. He stated he knew my handle, he would get my automotive blown up and that he would have my cats killed.’

She stated she took the calls to ‘pacify’ him and advised police she made a number of makes an attempt to finish their contact.

She stated: ‘I spoke to him virtually to pacify him as a result of I used to be afraid of him.’

Shmylo – described as being ‘very fairly’ – was sacked from her job at Parc Prison in Bridgend after failing her probation interval there.

The courtroom heard complaints about her included ‘flirtatious’ behaviour with inmates and sporting ‘skin-tight trousers’ to work.

Prosecutor Matthew Cobbe stated she ought to have reported Pullen for having a secret telephone behind bars, however as an alternative selected to ring him.

He stated the Pullen would contact Shmylo ‘each day’, and had additionally had telephone intercourse along with her and referred to her as his ‘Mrs’.

He contacted her on her birthday wishing her ‘comfortable birthday princess lady’ and organized for his mom to fulfill up along with her.

Mr Cobbe advised the courtroom that after being arrested Shmylo admitted she had telephone intercourse with Pullen.

Mr Cobbe stated: ‘She conceded throughout the course of her interview that she had had telephone intercourse with the inmate.

‘She defined this was principally the inmate saying issues to her, noting that ‘I used to be listening for the very best a part of it’.

‘That means she was actively partaking in telephone intercourse with the inmate – or a few of it.’

The courtroom heard Shmylo was employed at Parc Prison between August 2020 and April 2021 however failed her probation interval and was ‘launched’.

Claire Wilks, defending, stated Shmylo was a ‘very fairly 23-year-old’ who was at apparent threat of being manipulated by Pullen.

She stated: ‘He was a convicted drug supplier, it was an intelligence led operation, he is the member of an organised crime group. All these elements lead him to being a excessive threat and while he was in custody he was recognized to be a threat.’

Ms Wilks stated Pullun had ‘illicit telephones’ in jail and ‘at one stage was considered in possession of an improvised gun’.

Shmylo beforehand advised a jury there was no ‘sexual’ or ‘bodily’ contact with Pullen – and that he had threatened her.

Shmylo advised the courtroom shortly after Pullen had phoned her cellular for the primary time he advised she wanted to fulfill his mum Lynette Baldwin.

‘My choices had been both go and see her or ‘we’re’ going to return to the place my mom and my brother lived,’ she stated.

The courtroom beforehand heard Pullen’s mom had been jailed for throwing medication and cell phones over a jail wall the place her son was locked up inside.

Shmylo, of Treforest, Pontypridd, denies misconduct in a public workplace.

The trial continues.