A female prison officer who tried to start a family with a rapist inmate she fell in love with has admitted she knew he was a sex offender - but believed he would provide her a 'stable life'.
Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington, 29, told MailOnline of her 'relief' that she was this week spared jail after admitting a six-month illicit affair with sex attacker Bradley Trengrove while working as a warden at HMP The Verne in Portland, Dorset.
Saddington and Trengrove, who was serving 13 years for raping a woman and having sexual activity with a child, started their fling in August 2022 and had sex up to 40 times, often in prison workshops where nobody could see, her trial heard.
The female prison warden told Trengrove she was pregnant in November 2022, although she later miscarried after eight weeks.
After the 'extremely dangerous' inmate was transferred to another prison in March 2023, she visited him under a false name with a Calpol syringe in her bra to try and 'artificially inseminate' herself with his sperm, which he had wrapped in cling film.
