Prison Officer Had Sex With Rapist 40 Times And Tried To Smuggle His Sperm Out Of Jail

An ex-prison officer had a six-month affair with a convicted rapist at HMP The Verne in Dorset and tried smuggling a Calpol syringe of his sperm out for artificial insemination.

Cherrie-Ann Austin-Saddington, 26, had sex up to 40 times in the prison workshop with convicted rapist Bradley Trengrove (below), who was also convicted of having sexual activity with a child.

Their affair began after Trengrove slipped her a piece of paper containing the number of his secret mobile phone. Instead of reporting him, she sent a text and the romance blossomed from there.

Cherrie-Ann told MailOnline that she was aware Trengrove was sex offender: “I knew he was a sex offender because it was a sex offenders’ prison.”

He was serving a 13-year sentence for raping a woman and having sexual activity with a child, but Cherrie-Ann believed his claims that it was all lies and that he was innocent.

Outside the prison, the sex offender’s mum, brother and grandma made contact with Cherri-Ann and built relationships with her. They were officially coupled up!

Eventually, Cherrie-Ann, already a mum-of-three, fell pregnant with Trengrove’s child but suffered a miscarriage 8 weeks later.

Trengrove was then transferred to HMP Channings Wood, which meant no more secret sessions between the pair. Not to worry though – Cherrie-Ann visited him as a guest and smuggled a Calpol syringe into the prison for him to fill with his sperm, which she would then use “artificially inseminate” herself.

Unfortunately for her, she was busted with the syringe and Trengrove’s cell was searched and all his messages with the prison guard were found on his phone.

Cherrie-Ann was handed a two-year suspended sentence for misconduct in a public office.

Get this, though: before she was sentenced, Cherrie-Ann suffered a spinal stroke and was left paralysed from the chest down. That’s obviously a fate far worse than two years of prison time and it absolutely sucks for the girl, who had dumped Trengrove and seen the errors of her ways by then. It does explain the suspended sentence though, which I don’t think anyone can begrudge given what she’s now gone through.

Still, the whole situation is sure to bring up the old discourse about whether women should be working in men’s prisons in this capacity. I mean, this sort of thing does seem to happen a lot in Britain. At the very least, there should be stricter vetting and better training, clearly.

For the prison officer jailed after getting a tattoo of her inmate lover’s cell number on her leg, click HERE.