Our thanks to Jeff for this. An extract:

“In an earlier hearing, Khadim Al’Hassan, defending, told the court that Winstanley was only 22 when she began work at the prison and had only had one boyfriend before, when she was 15 and at school.

He said his client did not have the maturity and life experience needed for being a prison officer and said employing her was a “recipe for disaster”.”

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