Bethany Dent-Reynolds, who is from Forest Hill, southeast London, had an “inappropriate” tryst with lag Kieran Robinson while working at HMP Belmarsh in the capital
A probation officer has pleaded guilty to having a relationship with an inmate at a top security jail.
Bethany Dent-Reynolds, 27, had the “inappropriate” tryst with lag Kieran Robinson while working at HMP Belmarsh in Woolwich, southeast London. A court heard Dent-Reynolds misconducted herself in a way which amounted to an abuse of the public’s trust in the office holder.
And the probation officer admitted misconduct in a public office when she appeared at Woolwich Crown Court on Monday. According to the charge, she was in an “inappropriate relationship with a serving prisoner named Kieran Robinson between February 15, 2024 and May 3, 2024.”
The charge also stated that Dent-Reynolds “caused software namely Ndelius Record, to perform a function with intent to secure unauthorised access to data held in a computer.”
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Dent-Reynolds, from Forest Hill, southeast London, 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.
But she pleaded guilty to the initial charge, relating to the fling with Mr Robinson, which lasted nearly three months. Dent-Reynolds herself faces jail when she returns to Woolwich Crown Court on February 6 next year for sentencing. The young woman was granted unconditional bail.
The defendant denied a third charge 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. That charge was ordered to lie on file.
HMP Belmarsh, which has a capacity of nearly 800, is home to infamous prisoners including Southport killer Axel Rudakubana and Manchester bomb plotter Hashem Abedi. It opened near Woolwich in April 1991.
The case comes weeks after a prison guard was found guilty of bedding one inmate in the jail prayer room and having a fling with another. Isabelle Dale, 23, was convicted of two counts of misconduct in a public office and conspiracy to convey a ‘List A’ prohibited article into prison. As the verdicts were read out following the eight day trial, the tatted up prison guard burst into tears.
Dale started working at HMP Coldingley in Surrey at the age of just 19, and within months of taking up her new position, she ended up in sexual relationships with not one but two inmates, with suggestions there may have been more. One of the inmates, Shahid Sharif, who was jailed for 12 years for the armed robbery of a jewellers in which he threatened to maim people with ammonia, was known as ‘Sneaks’.
