Female probation officer, 27, admits having illicit relationship with inmate at Britain’s most safe jail

A probation officer has admitted having an illicit relationship with an inmate at a top-security prison holding some of Britain’s most notorious murderers and terrorists.

Bethany Dent-Reynolds, 27, had the ‘inappropriate’ tryst with convict Kieran Robinson while working at HMP Belmarsh in Woolwich, southeast London.

Belmarsh is home to infamous prisoners including Southport killer Axel Rudakubana and Manchester bomb plotter Hashem Abedi.  

Dent-Reynolds, of Forest Hill, southeast London, admitted misconduct in a public office when she appeared at Woolwich Crown Court.

According to the charge she misconducted herself in a way which amounted to an abuse of the public’s trust in the office holder by being in an ‘inappropriate relationship with a serving prisoner named Kieran Robinson between 15 February, 2024 and 3 May, 2024.’

The charge also stated that she ’caused software, namely Ndelius Record, to perform a function with intent to secure unauthorised access to data held in a computer.’

She denied a second misconduct charge alleging ‘an inappropriate, romantic relationship with Kieran Robinson’ between 1 March, 2024 and 20 April, 2024.

That charge was dropped.

Dent-Reynolds denied a third charge, which was ordered to lie on file, alleging she caused a computer ‘to perform a function with intent to secure unauthorised access to a program or data held in a computer or to enable any such access to be so secured’ under the Computer Misuse Act 1990.The charge was ordered to lie on file.

Dent-Reynolds was granted unconditional bail ahead of sentence at Woolwich Crown Court on February 6 next year.