Moment prison officer is filmed playing football computer game with a criminal in his cell – as justice chiefs investigate who put footage online
This is the moment a prison officer was filmed playing a football computer game with a criminal in his cell.
The footage, thought to have been shot with an illegal phone, shows prisoners surrounding a television screen.
While the guard’s colleague stands next to the cell door, the gaming officer is seen rushing out next to the sign: “He tried to escape.”
The clip posted on TikTok was later removed. It is currently unknown in which prison it was shot, but the Ministry of Justice is investigating who published the video.
Government sources defended the guard and said playing video games helped build relationships. Sun on Sunday.
The Ministry of Justice said: ‘We immediately removed these posts and are investigating.
‘Those who break prison rules will be punished and face additional time behind bars.’
Meanwhile, Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick told the newspaper that the prison was ‘not a holiday camp’.
This is the moment a prison officer was filmed playing a football video game with a criminal in his cell
The footage, thought to have been shot with an illegal phone, shows prisoners surrounding a television screen.
In August, a prisoner posted images online boasting about his luxurious life behind bars.
The footage, which appears to have been shared by a prisoner at drug-ravaged HMP Maidstone in Kent, shows the prisoner constantly boasting about his comfortable life and showing off various luxury items inside his cell.
In one video he films a TV screen with speakers playing and says: ‘Look at the speakers on the shelf, mate.’
He then turns the camera to show a boiled egg on a plate, a landline phone on the bed, and a Big Ben clock he made himself.
Former prison guard Lee Davies told the Daily Mail at the time that ‘phones are absolutely common’ in prisons across the country.
He added: ‘If someone is uploading a video to TikTok and the downside is crime is going on, phones can seem pretty inconsequential to people on the outside. Crime is run from prison cells.
‘There are phones literally everywhere.’
Female prison officer Charlotte Winstanley, 27, pleaded guilty to smuggling contraband, including phones, to inmates with whom she had inappropriate relationships at HMP Lindholme, near Doncaster, in September.
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 online by an inmate.
Mr Jenrick added: ‘Something is very wrong when policewomen are sleeping with prisoners and male policemen are playing FIFA in their cells.
‘Why should a criminal be afraid of going to prison anymore?’
