A female prison officer has been charged with performing a sex act on an inmate she was supposed to be guarding.

Rebecca Pinckard, 46, is accused of engaging in a relationship with a prisoner at HMP Highpoint a Category C prison in Suffolk.

After being given unconditional bail ahead of her hearing at a Crown Court, she left with her jacket pulled over her head to show a remembrance poppy on her jumper.

Pinckard from Cambridgeshire, was charged with wilful misconduct in public office between April 9 and July 6 last year.

District Judge Matthew Bone said the case needed to be held in Crown Court.

He told her: ‘Your offence is one that can only be dealt with in the Crown Court, and my job today is to send the case there. ‘If you don’t attend court without a good reason, you will be commi

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