A shocking psychiatric report on Linda De Sousa Abreu revealed she ‘loved’ the convicted burglar she had the romp with and viewed him as a ‘protector’ she provided ‘sexual services’ to
The former prison officer filmed having sex in a cell with an inmate “felt like a gangster,” it has been revealed. Linda De Sousa Abreu was sentenced to 15 months behind bars for her sexual escapades in HMP Wandsworth.
The mum-of-one shot to global infamy when a clip of her steamy romp with convicted burglar Linton Weirich was shared widely on social media. The 30-year-old had claimed she engaged with the prisoner out of fear he would expose her career as an amateur adult movie star.
However, De Sousa Abreu, who is married to the father of her child, rescinded this account before it was revealed she had told a psychiatrist that she “loved” Weirich and viewed him as a “protector”. The revelations were revealed in the full statement made by Judge Edmunds KC to De Sousa Abreu, according to the Daily Mail.
Referring to the psychiatric report – authored by Dr Iain Kooyman, a consultant forensic psychiatrist – the judge said she was “assessed as intelligent and insightful”.
“You can have had no doubt at all that any form of sexual relationship was completely forbidden and must have understood the harm that can flow from such a relationship.
“To Dr Kooyman you acknowledged that you knew your actions were unprofessional but said you did not understand that you could face prosecution.
‘”To ensure there was the opportunity to offend it would have been essential for you to be alone with the prisoners. This was the second sexual encounter with the prisoner on that day. To that extent, the offence was premeditated.
“Why did you breach that clear line? There could be no doubt about the challenging working environment and I acknowledge that the Prison Inspectorate reported on a lack of support for inexperienced staff, but you now resile from any suggestion that you offended because of pressure.
“What you said to the author, and repeated as recently as in your letter to me, was that you came to view the prisoner as your protector, a person who made you feel safe, and in that context you provided sexual services. But that is conceding to the very manipulation that your public office required you to resist.”
He added: “A clearer assessment comes in my view, from Dr Kooyman who observed that, although you felt unsupported, you enjoyed the sense of power that came with your position, the prisoners doing as you asked, saying you became grandiose and delusional, your mood high and that you loved working there.
“You told him that you developed a close attachment to the prisoner to the extent of wanting the relationship to continue after he was released, you say that you loved him, that you never felt so safe in your life and you ‘felt like a gangster’.
“You said that you did not believe that consequences existed for you and did not think that you would be caught. Looking back, you now say that he groomed you.”
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