Helen Spree, 63, who chaired the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) for HMP Liverpool, is jailed after admitting misconduct involving inmates. Multiple reports say Spree sent sexual messages to a prisoner serving a life sentence for manslaughter and also smuggled drugs into the jail. The allegations describe a pattern of inappropriate communication over an extended period while she held the watchdog role. One outlet reports that Spree engaged in illicit chats with prisoners over about 20 months. Another describes that she used sexually explicit images or videos and communicated with a killer inmate while he was in custody. The reporting also includes details that Spree kept items such as pillows featuring the face of the convicted killer she later messaged. The Guardian adds that Spree was sentenced to five years. All sources describe the same core conduct: misuse of her position as an IMB chair, sexual communications with inmates, and drug smuggling into HMP Liverpool.
Liverpool prison monitoring board chair jailed for drug smuggling and sexual messages
Helen Spree, 63, who chaired the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) for HMP Liverpool, is jailed after admitting misconduct involving inmates. Multiple reports say Spree sent sexual messages to a pris...
- Helen Spree, 63, chaired the Independent Monitoring Board for HMP Liverpool.
- She admits sending sexual messages and/or sexually explicit images or videos to inmates.
- She is convicted of smuggling drugs into HMP Liverpool.
- Reports describe the misconduct occurring while she held the watchdog role and involving a life-sentenced killer inmate.
- One report states she is sentenced to five years.
Helen Spree, 63, also kept pillows with pictures of the face of a convicted killer who she ended up sending sexually charged messages too as well as smuggling drugs into prison on his behalf
2 months agoHelen Spree, 63, headed prison watchdog and was said to have become besotted with killer Dylan Westall, 35A corrupt prison watchdog boss who billed herself “the prisoners’ Deliveroo” has been jailed for five years after admitting sending sexual messages to a killer inmate and smuggling drugs.Helen Spree, 63, was the head of the independent monitoring board (IMB) for HMP Liverpool when she engaged in illicit chats with prisoners over a 20-month period. Spree was said to have become besotted with Dylan Westall, 35, who was serving a life sentence for manslaughter for shooting a teenager in the head. Continue reading...
2 months agoHelen Spree, 63, was chairwoman of HMP Liverpool’s Independent Monitoring Board when she had inappropriate relationships with three inmates and smuggled drugs into the jail
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