The Latest Breaking News from HMP Kirkham

Low morale and manipulation: why prison officers are having relationships with inmates

Kerri Pegg, ex-governor of HMP Kirkham, is latest in series of convictions of corrupt staff amid Prison Service crisis

The Guardian - UK · May 16, 2025

Prison governor faces jail over relationship with Liverpool drug boss

Kerri Pegg, 42, of HMP Kirkham guilty of misconduct after inmate Anthony Saunderson gave her a Mercedes car

The Guardian - UK · Apr 8, 2025

Prison governor guilty of relationship with jailed ‘Jesse Pinkman’ dealer who gave her car

Anthony Saunderson was known among his criminal associates by the nicknames ‘Jesse Pinkman’

The Independent UK · Apr 8, 2025

Man on the run from prison wanted by police

The Huyton man has not returned to HMP Kirkham

Liverpool Echo · Feb 8, 2023

Manchester murderer found in Scotland weeks after going on the run from prison

'Dangerous' Paul Gerrard absconded from HMP Kirkham last month

Manchester Evening News · Jan 18, 2023

Double killer arrested after going on the run from open prison for the second time

A manhunt was launched after Darren Pilkington, who was jailed in 2006 for killing his then girlfriend Carly Fairhurst in Wigan, absconded from HMP Kirkham

Manchester Evening News · May 28, 2022

Double killer on run after escaping prison for second time sparking manhunt

Darren Pilkington, 39, who previously killed his girlfriend and as a teen beat a man to death outside a pub, has gone AWOL from HMP Kirkham in Lancashire, with officers launching a manhunt

Daily Mirror · May 27, 2022

Gangsters and criminals who escaped jail and how they were eventually caught

Shaun Walmsley's escape from custody led to a massive police operation

Liverpool Echo · Feb 26, 2022