Married prison officer filmed having s*x with inmate admits sleeping with him only thrice
Bags 15 months in jail
A prison officer, Linda De Sousa Abreu, whose s*x video with an inmate went viral last year has admitted she slept with him only three times.
She was subsequently sentenced to 15 months in prison for her indiscretion.
Abreu, 30, of Fulham, was seen in an explicit video filmed inside HMP Wandsworth prison in south London which went viral online last year.
Appearing in full uniform, the prison officer, was filmed by another prisoner having s*x with Linton Weirich, 36, in June, with what the judge described as “evident enthusiasm”.
When she appeared at Isleworth crown court on Monday, she was handed 15 months in prison, half of which will be served on licence, after admitting three separate sexual encounters with the convicted burglar.
Abreu, an OnlyFans model who also appeared on a Channel 4 television series about swinging, previously pleaded guilty to misconduct in a public office.
Sentencing her, Judge Martin Edmunds KC, the Recorder of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, said a fellow prisoner, who was not named, filmed the tryst on an “unauthorised phone” while appearing to smoke cannabis.
“The recording lasts some four-and-a-half minutes,” the judge said. “You participated with evident enthusiasm. The second prisoner recorded events and provided a commentary by way of encouragement, including saying: ‘Guys we made history’, ‘This is how we live at Wandsworth bruv’, and ‘You know you are a gangsta’.”
Judge Edmunds said Abreu had also admitted two other sexual liaisons with Weirich, a convicted burglar, one of which was accidentally recorded on her body-worn camera.
“One was performing oral sex on the same prisoner on a separate occasion on the same day, an event partly recorded, by accident, on your prison-issued body-worn camera,” he said.
“The other was a previous occasion of sexual intercourse with the same prisoner.”
He added: “They show that this offence was not isolated. It was part of repeated behaviour. It is not clear when the earliest offence occurred so I shall assume the repetition was within a few days.”
Linton Weirich, who appears in the video with De Sousa Abreu, was serving time in prison for burglary
Judge Edmunds said Abreu “knew that conduct was forbidden and forbidden for good reason” and that it had put “fellow officers at increased risk”.
“It is inevitable that the damage for which you were responsible at Wandsworth has spread, to some degree, through the prison estate,” he said.
In a statement earlier read to the court, Andrew Davy, the governor of HMP Wandsworth, said her actions had “undone years” of efforts to increase male prisoners’ respect for female officers.
“It has taken many years for female staff to be respected and treated professionally in a male-dominated environment,” he said. “The action of this defendant has undone years of positive and rewarding prisoner interactions in less than a day.”
Rajiv Menon KC, representing Abreu, told the court she accepted “full responsibility” for her actions.
He asked that her sentence be reduced, citing a psychiatric report that found she had a “severe personality disorder” that combined with ADHD made her a “highly impulsive and reckless person who tends to act without considering the consequences”.
“(The doctor) then concludes that Ms Abreu is a highly emotional, damaged individual who over the years has increasingly used s*x as a means to feel positive emotions,” he told the court.
“We submit on her behalf that the mental disorder should in all fairness significantly reduce her culpability in this case.”
Abreu was close to tears as Judge Edmunds sentenced her.
“The sentence on you is one of 15 months’ imprisonment,” he said. “Of that you will serve half in custody, unless the prison authorities decide to release you earlier. The remainder you will serve on licence.
“You have been subject to a qualifying curfew for 190 days and that entitles you to a credit of 95 days against that sentence.”