Prison Officer Jailed For Smuggling Drugs Into HMP Wandsworth

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Kwaku Boakye was paid by an inmate's girlfriend to supply heroin, cannabis and alcohol

A prison officer and the partner of a serving prisoner have been sentenced to a total of ten years in prison for smuggling drugs and mobile phones into HMP Wandsworth.

Kwaku Boakye, a 59 year old prison officer from Clapham, was sentenced to six years' imprisonment at Southwark Crown Court om 27 May after being found guilty on 21 April of the following offences:

- conveying 2.7g of diamorphine (heroin) into a prison
- conveying 103g of herbal and skunk cannabis into a prison
- conveying 18 mobile phones into a prison
- conveying 17 SIM cards into a prison
- conveying three bottles of wine into a prison


Kwaku Boakye

Donna Taylor, 34, of Mitcham was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty on 18 April to the following offences:

- conveying 2.7g of diamorphine (heroin) into a prison
- conveying 103g of herbal and skunk cannabis into a prison
- conveying 18 mobile phones into a prison
- conveying 17 SIM cards into a prison

On 21 April 2014 Boakye arrived for work at Wandsworth Prison and was searched by other prison staff and a drugs dog, and found to be in possession of various restricted items including alcohol and herbal cannabis. A bag in his possession contained a large clingfilm-wrapped package containing drugs and mobile phones.

Police from the London Prison Anti Corruption Team launched an investigation and subsequently Donna Taylor was arrested in connection with the case. It was established that Taylor had met Boakye in Clapham and given him items to be smuggled into the prison and handed over to her partner, Jerry Agyemang, who was serving a sentence for a firearms offence.

Boakye was paid £360 by Taylor to smuggle the items into the prison.

Investigating officer DC Scott Pavitt of the London Prison Anti Corruption Team, said, "This case has been a long and complex investigation, requiring the close co-operation of our partners in the Prison Service. I hope that these sentences serve as a deterrent to others who wish to engage in corruption which continues the criminality of those serving sentences inside prison."