This is the moment a prison officer is filmed playing a football computer game with a criminal in his cell.
The footage, believed to have been filmed on an illicit phone, shows inmates surrounding a television screen.
The guard’s colleague stands near the cell door before the gaming officer is seen quickly exiting alongside the caption: ‘He try run.’
The clip posted on TikTok has since been taken down. It is currently not known which prison it was filmed at, but the Ministry of Justice is investigating who posted it online.
Government sources defended the guard and said that playing video games helps to build relationships, reported The Sun on Sunday.
The Ministry of Justice said: ‘We removed these posts immediately and are investigating.
‘Those who break prison rules will be punished and can face extra time behind bars.’
Meanwhile, Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick told the newspaper that prison ‘is not a holiday camp’.
This is the moment a prison officer is filmed playing a football computer game with a criminal in his cell
The footage, believed to have been filmed on an illicit phone, shows inmates surrounding a television screen
In August, a prisoner posted footage online boasting about his luxurious life while behind bars.
The footage, understood to have been shared by an inmate at drugs-blighted HMP Maidstone, in Kent, the inmate repeatedly brags about his cushy life, showing off a range of luxury items inside a cell.
In one video, he films a TV screen with loud speakers playing and says: ‘Look at the speakers on the shelf, man.’
He then pans the camera around to show boiled eggs on a plate, a landline phone above the bed and a Big Ben model clock he has built.
Former prison guard Lee Davies told the Daily Mail at the time that ‘phones are absolutely rife’ in jails across the country.
He added: ‘Phones obviously to people outside can seem fairly trivial if someone’s just putting videos on TikTok but the sinister side of it is crime is carried on. Crime is orchestrated from prison cells.
‘There are phones literally everywhere.’
Female prison officer Charlotte Winstanley, 27, in September pleaded guilty to smuggling in contraband including phones to inmates she was having improper relationships with at HMP Lindholme, near Doncaster.
Meanwhile, in January, former Wandsworth prison officer Linda De Sousa Abreu, 31, was jailed for 15 months after a film of her having sex with an inmate was shared by an inmate online.
Mr Jenrick added: ‘Something is badly wrong when female officers are sleeping with inmates and male officers are playing FIFA in their cells.
‘Why would a criminal fear going to prison any more?’