A jail officer accused of getting an intimate relationship with an inmate has been discovered not responsible of misconduct in a public workplace.
Ruth Shmylo, 26, who was a jail officer at HMP Parc in Bridgend denied the cost towards her.
The jury at Cardiff Crown Court returned a not responsible verdict at present.
During the trial, she mentioned what the prosecution described as “phone sex” with Harri Pullen was sexual harassment.
“The first time, when I came to be aware that Harri was masturbating when I was on the phone, I asked him to stop. I repeatedly asked him to stop,” the court docket heard.
“I perceived to be sexual harassment, he perceives to be phone sex,” she mentioned.
“I cried, I asked him to stop. That’s what I did.”
The prosecution questioned why Ms Shmylo could possibly be heard laughing throughout a number of of the cellphone conversations with Pullen that have been heard by the jury.
Ms Shmylo mentioned it was an “uncomfortable laugh” and the “alternative to a light-hearted conversation [was] him threatening to kill me”.
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The jury heard Ms Shmylo had at one level advised Pullen that she was transferring to Australia however that “didn’t deter him at all”.
Ms Shmylo additionally denied giving Pullen a “cwtch” (a hug).
She advised the court docket Pullen’s grandmother had died and he “quite literally fell into [her] arms, grief-stricken”.
“His perception of that is that it was a cwtch,” she added.
After the not responsible verdict was returned, Judge Simon Mills thanked the jury for his or her service.
Source: information.sky.com”