41 h. ago Prison tutor jailed after being found 'flustered' reading lag's love letters

Melissa Murphy, 48, was found to have exchanged racy content with an inmate at HMP Chelmsford, where she worked as a teacher training inmates for employment after their release

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44 h. ago Prison officer jailed after 'performing sex act' on lag during 'secret fling'

Prison officer Rebecca Pinkard, 46, embarked on a fling with an inmate at HMP Highpoint in Suffolk, and was said to have 'performed oral sex on that prisoner'

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45 h. ago Prison tutor sent 'sexual' letters to inmate but denies physical relationship

The prison tutor locked herself in a workshop with the inmate and was found 'flustered'

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47 h. ago Prison tutor jailed after sending explicit love letters to inmate

The court heard handwritten letters from Murphy containing “explicit romantic and sexual content” were found in the prisoner’s cell

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48 h. ago Prison tutor jailed for 'sexual' letters to inmate as judge blasts 'abuse of trust'

The prison tutor locked herself in a workshop with the inmate and was found 'flustered'

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48 h. ago Prison tutor found 'flustered' alone with inmate before sexual letters is jailed

HMP Chelmsford prison tutor Melissa Murphy has been sentenced over an inappropriate relationship with an inmate after a photo and letters between the pair were found

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48 h. ago Prison tutor whose fling with lag exposed after photo found in bedroom learns fate

Melissa Murphy, 48, admitted having an inappropriate relationship with an inmate at HMP Chelmsford after love letters were discovered between the pair and a photo was found in her bedroom

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48 h. ago Prison tutor's romance with lag exposed after photo and love letters found in her bedroom

Melissa Murphy, 48, admitted having an inappropriate relationship with an inmate at HMP Chelmsford after love letters were discovered between the pair and a photo was found in her bedroom

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8 d. ago Female prison tutor accused of forming 'intimate' relationship with lag

Kelly Duffey is alleged to have struck up an inappropriate relationship with the inmate before hiding the 'affair' from the public for four months as the prisoner was moved

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8 d. ago Female prison tutor, 36, appears in court accused of having 'intimate relationship' with inmate

Kelly Duffey, 36, is charged with striking up a romantic relationship with Ashley Goodridge, 37, who is currently serving a prison sentence.

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3 w. ago The day the Palisades were left to burn: Film exposes how firefighters sat idle as thousands of homes were destroyed

As thousands of homes burned, firefighters allegedly stood down and city officials staged photo ops the second day of the Palisades fire exposed shocking failures, according to a new doc.

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3 w. ago US justice department restores photo featuring Trump from Epstein files

Department says image was flagged by prosecutors before determining it posed no risk to survivors of late sex offenderThe US justice department said on Sunday it had restored an image it had removed a day earlier from the public release of investigative files related to Jeffrey Epstein after concluding that the photograph, which included within it a photo of Donald Trump, posed no risk of public exposure to victims of the late convicted sex offender.The justice department said the image had been flagged by federal prosecutors in New York for potentially exposing victims of Epstein. Its unexplained removal on Saturday triggered a chorus of accusations from Democrats about evident political interference in favor of the president, a former friend of Epstein. Continue reading...

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