Prison officer filmed playing video game with inmate in his cell

Other inmates watched and filmed as a prison officer played a Fifa-style video game with an inmate in his cell.

They found it amusing enough to post it on social media, where it gained so much attention that the Ministry of Justice intervened to take down the TikTok clip.

The clip showed the uniformed guard leaving the cell, with the caption overlaid: ‘He try run’, the Sun reported.

It’s not quite at the level of guards having sex with prisoners, as in the case of Linda De Sousa Abreu, who was jailed earlier this year – and the guard himself is not accused of wrongdoing.

But the government is now investigating after the video was filmed on a prisoner’s mobile phone, which they should not have had behind bars. It was not clear which prison the video was filmed at, or when.

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