Pinckard will be sentenced in January after admitting to a misconduct charge (Image: Newsquest/ SWNS)

A prison officer who had a secret relationship with a prisoner is facing jail time. Rebecca Pinckard, 46, has admitted having a fling with the inmate at HMP Highpoint in Stradishall, Suffolk, which lasted between April and July 2024.

She was arrested and faced a charge that she "wilfully and without reasonable excuse or justification misconducted herself" in a way which amounted to "an abuse of the public’s trust".

The charge states that she did so "by engaging in a relationship" with a prisoner she was responsible for, sending a card to him and "performing oral sex on that prisoner while working as a prison officer". She pleaded guilty to the offence at Cambridge Crown Court on Novem

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