The “shack-up” arrangement between the senior prisons
officer and her prisoner is said to have created a big stink in
the prisons system, since the couple more or less have an open relationship.
Sources explained that it may be against prisons regulations for
a prisons officer to fall in love, and moreso develop such a close
relationship with a prisoner.
“That has to be improper,” said a prisons source.
“Moreso, this is a lesbian relationship formed while the prisoner
was under her charge.
“What kind of standard is that?
“It looks like it is a free-for-all in the jail.
“If he is not aware, the Prisons Commissioner John Rougier
must investigate and get to the bottom of this affair before it
brings the entire prisons system into disrepute.
“Some of his senior officers who know about the relationship
must have kept it away from him, since they have done everything
to sweep it under the carpet, even though they are aware how it
has already affected the morale of some of the other prisons officers
who have been calling for some form of action to be taken.”
TnT Mirror was told: “Some of the senior officers refused
to believe the story, since the prisons officer involved was known
to be a good Christian.
“They immediately said she will never get herself involved
in a thing like that and dismissed the allegation, probably without
even investigating it.”
The ex-con reportedly drops off her prisons officer lover to work
and also picks her back up at the end of her shift.
“What is more, she does so in the prisons officer husband’s
car which the officer took from him when she broke up the marriage,”
said the source.
“She also cleaned out their joint bank account which contained
a hefty sum, and also their matrimonial home, taking away all the
furniture from their apartment.”
The prisons officer and her husband, who is also reportedly an employee
of the Ministry of National Security, have one child together.
The lesbian couple is now living in another apartment in Central
Trinidad, which is the same area where the prisons officer previously
lived with her husband.
Sources further told Mirror that the relationship between the prisons
officer and the ex-con created a public embarrassment for the prisons
last year, when the “couple” was photographed together
at a public function and the picture was published in one of the
daily newspapers.
“Every visitor who brought a copy of that newspaper to the
prison that day to give to a prisoner had it censored,” one
source revealed.
“Prisons officers were given strict instructions to tear off
the page with the ‘couple’s’ picture before they
passed the paper to the prisoners.
“That was a hectic day in the life of the prison.”
The source explained: “It was an open secret that this relationship
started while the woman was a prisoner. The love affair started
in jail.
“The prisoner was openly gay and like her moves on the prisons
officer paid off.
“Our quiet investigations revealed that she may have been
‘married’ to another woman in her home country before
she came to Trinidad and was arrested.”
The source added: “Sometimes when the prisons officer worked
at nights it was not unusual for them to be making love through
the bars.
“In fact, there are reports that the ‘couple’
used to be making love in a cell whole night.”
The source continued: “When the news spread, a female officer
told the prisons officer’s husband what was going on and the
husband complained to a senior officer.
“But I am not sure if anything was ever done about the situation.
“The development has affected the husband badly and he has
been sending certain messages to certain officers.
“Some people fear he will do something drastic, especially
if he is allowed to return to work in his section.”
Communications officer of the prisons, Sharon Ramsaran, was not
available for comments when Mirror tried to contact her. |
