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A 23-year-old prison officer has been spared jailed after forming a relationship with a convicted drug dealer in Merseyside .

Megan Breen appeared at Cardiff Crown Court where it was heard that she would travel to the Merseyside area to meet the prisoner while he was on home leave and even stayed in a hotel with him to celebrate her 20th birthday.

Breen was working as an operational support grade worker at HMP Prescoed, a category D open prison in Gwent, at the time, the court heard.

She met the unnamed inmate while working night shifts and arranged to meet him while he was on home leave in the Merseyside area, preparing for release.

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He had been jailed in October 20

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