Prison officer is jailed over affair with convicted double murderer

A PRISON officer who had an affair with a convicted double murderer has been jailed.

Lauren McIntyre, 32, engaged in a sexual relationship behind bars with a man serving life for the brutal killings of his former girlfriend and their baby daughter.

Her fling with Andrew Roberts, who was jailed in 2003, took place in 2018 when he was serving time in a prison on the Isle of Wight, a court heard.

McIntyre, inset, also provided Roberts with the personal mobile number of another prison officer with whom she had had an affair.

She knew Roberts intended to assault her colleague and failed to raise the alarm, meaning that they “fell into a trap” and received significant head injuries at the hands of Roberts, a court heard. Mother- of- three McIntyre, of St John’s Wood Road in Ryde on the Isle of Wight, pleaded guilty to four charges of misconduct in a public office.

She appeared at Isle of Wight Crown Court yesterday and was sentenced to three years in prison. Texts read out in court painted a picture of McIntyre’s “passionate” affair with Roberts behind bars.

A few days later on November 18, McIntyre messaged Roberts: “I have had hands on you so I guess it’s time you got hands on me.” Later the same day she told him: “I still keep remembering the first time you kissed me.” The court was told of a plan was hatched to plant a mobile phone on another prisoner with McIntyre’s fellow prison officer’s phone number on it in an effort to frame them, a number which she provided.

Defence barrister Briony Molyneux said McIntyre was initially trying an “intelligence gathering operation”.

She cited her client’s previous good character, guilty pleas and the fact she is mother to three small children as factors that should merit her a suspended sentence.

Roberts, then 22, of Tylerstown, in the Rhondda Valley, was given two life sentences in September 2003 for the murders of Louise L’Homme, 23, and 10- month- old Tia Roberts.

He strangled both while high on a cocktail of drink and drugs – and then carried on partying at the couple’s South Wales home, Swansea Crown Court heard.