Gangster who had cellphone intercourse with glam jail officer had jail affair with nurse

A gangster inmate who a jail officer mentioned left her “terrified” had one other jail affair, it has been revealed.

Harri Pullen, 25, made threats in opposition to 26-year-old Ruth Shmylo’s until she agreed to have cellphone intercourse with him, a court docket heard.

She was cleared earlier this week of getting an inappropriate relationship with a prison between December 2020 and April 2021.

It has now been revealed although, that Pullen had a relationship with a special member of jail employees, nurse Elyse Hibbs, 25, who was jailed for for six months for having an affair with Pullen.

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Although the affair between Hibbs and Pullen was beforehand reported his identify has been unknown after it was saved from the general public in the course of the trial of Ms Shmylo.

After quitting her job in HMP Parc in Bridgend in July 2021 she was arrested per week later together with her communication with Pullen taking place through a mutual affiliate on Instagram on an iPhone he was hiding in jail.

She admitted messaging the inmate and mentioned she was frightened to cease the communication after he had made threats to her prior to now.



Elyse Hibbs was jailed for six months for misconduct in public workplace
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When speaking about Hibbs’ calls with the inmate prosecutor Matthew Cobbe mentioned: “He tells her that he loves her and she tells him that she loves him too.

“The calls included references to the defendant’s current associate and the inmate constantly urged he would substitute him and be in a relationship together with her.

“She told him she didn’t want him messaging her as she was anxious and that she didn’t trust him.”

He added: “She explained that she and the inmate were never in a sexual relationship of any kind at all. She accepted she should have reported the matter but that she got in too deep and couldn’t get out.’

But Hibbs’s defence, Adam Sharp has a different outlook and says: “‘She was younger, impressionable, inexperienced and weak to the malign affect of the inmate who sought to take advantage of her.”

He also claimed that the prisoner was a ‘particularly manipulative individual’ But, Hibbs was jailed for six months, and the Nursing and Midwifery Council handed her a 12-month ban in July.

Recorder of Cardiff Tracey Lloyd-Clarke, said to Hibbs: “You knew what you have been doing was flawed, you had coaching however however you went forward and fashioned what was clearly an emotional relationship with this prisoner.

“Although you were young you held a position of responsibility as a nurse and as a member of prison staff. You failed to report initial contact despite advice from a colleague and training you had had.

“You engaged in flirtatious relationship initially, you did not report the on-going contact and also you did not report that this inmate had upon him and in custody an illegal machine.”



Ruth Shmylo who was cleared of a misconduct cost
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Shmylo, who was this week cleared of a misconduct cost, was sacked from her job on the G4S-run Category-B HMP Parc in Bridgend after the affair got here to mild, while Pullen was moved to HMP Manchester (also referred to as Strangeways).

Prosecutor Matthew Cobbe instructed the court docket: “She conceded during the course of her interview that she had had phone sex with the inmate… She explained this was principally the inmate saying things to her, noting that ‘I was listening for the best part of it’.”

Ms Shmylo and Pullen’s conversations have been performed to the court docket and included Pullen saying: “I love you.”

Giving proof at her personal trial, she mentioned: “He made multiple threats to me since then. He said he knew my address, he would get my car blown up and that he would have my cats killed I spoke to him almost to pacify him because I was terrified of him.”

Her legal professionals additionally mentioned how she was labelled a “grass” for elevating consciousness of corruption that she witnessed throughout her time working as a jail officer, together with officers mixing saliva and semen into the meals of the prisoners they did not like.



Ruth Shmylo had cellphone intercourse with inmate Harri Pullen
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Claire Wilks, defending, instructed the court docket: “She called out a regime of corruption, she called out a regime of food tampering. Pretty disgusting isn’t it? The type of thing you might see in some sort of Netflix drama.

“A 23-year-old younger girl who had 9 weeks of coaching was courageous sufficient to name that out. And look what she bought in return. She was known as a grass, assaulted, slapped on the underside, degraded, humiliated.

“And they expect that same person to call out Harri Pullen?”

When requested in court docket if she bought any gratification out of her calls with Pullen, Ms Shmylo mentioned: “No. The first time when I came to be aware Harri was masturbating I asked him to stop. I repeatedly asked him to stop and I cried.

“It made him actually indignant and his precise phrases have been: ‘You’re making out like I’m sort 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.’.”

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