Prison officer jailed after love affair with murderer
SHE WAS CAUGHT SMUGGLING CONTRABAND INTO STRANGEWAYS FOR KILLER:
A PRISON officer who had an ‘intense’ illicit love affair with a notorious lifer at Strangeways has been jailed.
Kiah Andrusjak, 25, supervised inmates working on cleaning duty at the Manchester high security prison and felt out of her depth.
She fell for 24-year-old Shane Boyd a convicted murderer on mop duty after she felt ‘disrespected’ by inmates and he stuck up for her. Andrusjak, from Wigan, was caught after smuggling the killer a Terry’s Chocolate Orange.
She was trying to bring him a pack of Lambert and Butler cigarettes and keepsake photographs when she was confronted and searched by staff who had been tipped off what she was up to.
By that time she had swapped 690 texts with Boyd - each with a heartshaped emoji - while knowing he was using a contraband mobile phone.
Boyd had even arranged for his sister to give Andrusjak Christmas presents from him at clandestine meetings in Nando’s, handing over £150 in a card on one occasion.
Now Andrusjak - who spent five years in the Royal Navy before joining the Prison Service - has been jailed for eight months by a judge who told her the ‘betrayal of trust’ was serious and that crimes like hers ‘undermined public confidence.’ Andrusjak, of Meadowfield, Hindley Green, admitted two charges of misconduct in public office, firstly by having an