BREAKING NEWSGlamorous prison officer who admitted having phone sex with jailed drug-dealing gangster is cleared of illicit affair after claiming she only took his calls to ‘pacify’ him

A glamorous prison officer who had phone sex with a convicted gangster was today cleared of having an illegal relationship with the prisoner after she claiming she only took his phone calls to ‘pacify him’. 

Ruth Shmylo, 26, claimed she was living in fear of drug dealer Harri Pullen, 25, while working at a category B prison.

She was accused of having a five month inappropriate relationship with Pullen – and calls between them were recorded by prison bosses.

But she claimed she was ‘terrified’ of manipulative Pullen and took his calls to appease him after he threatened her family.

She hugged her mother and sister after leaving the dock having been cleared by the jury following a nine-day trial.

Judge Simon Mills told the jury: ‘Ruth Shmylo will return to her life having endured this experience.’

Ruth Shmylo (pictured), 26, was today cleared of having an illegal relationship with a prisoner

Ruth Shmylo, 26, claimed she was living in fear of drug dealer Harri Pullen, 25 (pictured)

Shmylo, described by her barrister as ‘very pretty’, told the court Pullen ‘fixated’ on her and forced her to take his calls.

She was sacked from her job at HMP Parc in Bridgend and Pullen moved to another prison after officials at the G4S-run jail over their alleged affair.

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Pullen was moved to HMP Manchester – also known as Strangeways – and added Shmylo to his approved calls list but their conversations were recorded by officials.

The calls, played to the court, included Pullen repeatedly telling her ‘I love you.’

The court heard complaints about her included ‘flirtatious’ behaviour with inmates and wearing ‘skin-tight trousers’ to work.

But the court heard she had previously made corruption reports of her own against other staff who were colluding with inmates to tamper with prisoner’s food.

Shmylo told the jury that prisoners would order ‘a special’ for an inmate they didn’t like – which would see corrupt officers spit or pour semen into their meals.

She told police that when she rejected Pullen he threatened her brother-in-law who worked in another part of the prison.

She said: ‘He made multiple threats to me since then. He said he knew my address, he would get my car blown up and that he would have my cats killed.’

She said she took the calls to ‘pacify’ him and told police she made multiple attempts to end their contact.

She said: ‘I spoke to him almost to pacify him because I was terrified of him.’

Claire Wilks, defending, said Shmylo should have been treated as a whistleblower but was instead ‘hung out to dry’ by prison bosses and called ‘a grass’ by her colleagues and assaulted.

Ms Wilks said it was no surprise that given her previous treatment at the jail she wouldn’t report phone calls with Pullen as she feared the consequences.

She said: ‘She called out a regime of corruption, she called out a regime of food tampering. Pretty disgusting isn’t it? The type of thing you might see in some sort of Netflix drama.

‘Ordering ‘a special’ and serving it to vulnerable prisoners, these are prisoners who are new to Parc Prison and yet already within weeks there’s ‘a special’ that can be ordered.

‘A 23-year-old young woman who had nine weeks of training was brave enough to call that out. And look what she got in return. She was called a grass, assaulted, slapped on the bottom, degraded, humiliated.

‘And they expect that same person to call out Harri Pullen?’

Shmylo was accused of having a five month inappropriate relationship with Pullen

Shmylo told the jury she cried when Pullen tried to initiate phone sex

Ms Wilks said: ‘G4S is the private company that runs Parc Prison. It houses over 1,000 prisoners and many, many, staff.

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‘The truth is it oversees a regime that is rife with corruption and unable to protect either prisoners and staff.

‘You may think Miss Shmylo was degraded and humiliated by both the inmates and her colleagues.

‘She was called nicknames, she was harassed, and when she tried to expose significant malpractices she bore the brunt of it.’

Prosecutor Matthew Cobbe told the court that after being arrested Shmylo admitted she had phone sex with Pullen.

Mr Cobbe said: ‘She conceded during the course of her interview that she had had phone sex with the inmate.

‘She explained this was principally the inmate saying things to her, noting that ‘I was listening for the best part of it’.

‘That means she was actively engaging in phone sex with the inmate – or some of it.’

Shmylo told the jury she cried when Pullen tried to initiate phone sex.

Ms Wilks asked her: ‘Did you have any sexual arousal from the phone calls?’

Shmylo said when she rejected Pullen he threatened her brother-in-law who worked in another part of the prison

Shmylo answered: ‘No. The first time when I came to be aware Harri was masturbating I asked him to stop. I repeatedly asked him to stop and I cried.

‘It made him really angry and his exact words were: ‘You’re making out like I’m kind of nonce.

‘It was like I had insulted him because I was crying and I was repeatedly saying: ‘I’m not doing this I’m not doing this.”

Shmylo, of Treforest, Pontypridd was cleared of one charge of misconduct in a public office.

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