A former prison officer had a relationship with an inmate who was jailed for murder.
Olivia Hodgson has now been jailed herself, for misconduct in a public office, after starting a relationship with prisoner Lavarne Forde-Morgan in early 2020. The 26-year-old had been working at HMP Garth, in Lancashire, when she smuggled in mobile phones to the prisoner so she was able to speak to him outside of work.
Hodgson, of Hawthorn Road, Preston, was caught when in January 2021, Forde-Morgan was transferred to another prison and they found his mobile phone. A mobile phone was analysed and detectives found evidence that he had been in touch with another mobile number, later found to belong to Hodgson.
