A Ghanaian prison officer in the UK, Tracy Boateng has earned herself a 12-month jail suspended sentence after she got into love tango with a Nigerian inmate.
Boateng, 26, was discovered to be in romantic relationship with 34-year-old Nigerian Vincent Ojo at HMP Pentonville, north London, between February 25 and April 19, 2024. A bodycam had captured her interactions with Mr. Ojo and on inquiry she admitted to having an inappropriate relationship with an inmate.
According to reports by Metro London Boateng was spared jail time because she is nursing a three-month-old daughter, the judge said.
Her lover Mr. Ojo was jailed for five years in 2016 after he tried to smuggle narcotics. He has been at Pennington, a category B men’s prison in Islington, since 2020. The court was shown texts between Boateng and a fellow prison officer discussing the relationship.
Judge Caroline English told Boateng her offence was so serious that it warranted a custodial sentence. “You wholly breached and abused your position by engaging in a highly inappropriate relationship with a prisoner in your charge.”
