Prison officer who had secret romance with inmate is jailed for 12 months

Jade Morris (left) was in a relationship with Iag Jerome Nunes (right_(Picture: Police)

A married prison officer who had a secret six-month romance with a serving inmate and sent him sexually explicit selfies has been jailed for 12 months.

Jade Morris, 37, exchanged more than 10,000 messages with lag Jerome Nunes, 35, during their ‘intimate relationship’ between July 2022 and January 2023.

Morris was working at category A HMP Long Lartin in Worcestershire, home to some of Britain’s most notorious criminals, while drugs dealer Nunes was serving a 12-year sentence.

The pair’s fling was exposed after prison chiefs became ...