A mother-of-one broke down in tears as she was jailed for performing sex acts on an inmate.
Katie Evans, 26, waved to her family as she was taken down at Sheffield Crown Court after admitting to being in a sexual relationship with burglar Daniel Brownley at Doncaster Prison.
Evans, worked there from the age of 21, shared 140 phone calls with Brownley, moved money around in bank accounts for him and told him information the prison had on him.
She boasted to a former prison officer that she had performed oral sex on him and referred to herself as his ‘queen’.
Judge Jeremy Richardson told Evans: ‘It appears you indulged in some form of sexual activity in the prison. It has been described that on one occasion you had oral sex with him.
‘It is truly a terrible situation for a judge to be passing sentence on a former prison officer who has been branded a corrupt prison officer.’
Judge Richardson told Evans ‘he corrupted you and not the reverse’, adding: ‘I’m entirely satisfied you were manipulated by an experienced criminal to assist him.’
The judge said Evans was ‘young and immature’ when the offending happened in 2020, and said she was suspectible to the manipulation from Brownley.
‘You were inexperienced and immature but that is, however, no excuse for what you did,’ he told her.
He said he accepted she was genuinely remorseful and posed no danger to the public in the future.
Judge Richardson said the sentence of 21 months should have been longer but, ‘purely as an act of mercy’, he reduced it to take into account the effect it will have on Evans’ relationship with her young daughter and the difficulties she will have in prison as a former officer.
Evans had previously admitted miscondcut in a public office. She cried and waved at family members in the gallery as she left.
The court heard that Brownley had been jailed for five-and-a-half years in 2016 for attempted robbery, burglary and handling stolen goods.
He had been released but was back in prison in 2020 after he was recalled for breaching his licence conditions.
In a statement, Serco, which owns Doncaster Prison, said: ‘We have a zero-tolerance approach to any member of staff who fails to meet the standards we expect and on those rare occasions when one of our officers falls short of the required standards, we work closely with the police to investigate the issue fully and when necessary take appropriate action.’
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