LAG SEX JAIL OFFICER GETS FOUR YEARS
IT’S ALL ABOUT CHEMISTRY FOR
A PRISON officer convicted of having a sexual relationship with an inmate has been jailed for four years.
The judge told Iain Cocks he had committed a “persistent and grave breach of trust”.
Cocks, 51, had an 18-month relationship with the prisoner at HMP New Hall near Wakefield, West Yorks, where his wife worked.
They had unprotected sex on six or seven occasions, including over a washing machine, in a staff room and in her cell, Leeds Crown Court was told.
Cocks, of Cudworth, Barnsley, south Yorks, also engaged in flirtatious behaviour with another inmate before sexually assaulting her in her cell.
The then-prisoner told the court that the defendant stopped only after she said: “Don’t you think I am vulnerable?”
In a victim impact statement, she added: “My actions can never be justified, they were terrible.
“However, my punishment was to go to jail, not the additional punishment of the actions of Mr Cocks.”
She added that she felt “petrified” at the prospect of ever having to encounter the prison officer again.
Cocks invited a third woman, who had just been released from the prison on licence, to his marital home, where they had sex.
A jury convicted him of two counts of misconduct in a public office and one of sexual assault.