Prison officer 'had personal relationship with teenager behind bars'

A female prison officer has been accused of having a 'personal relationship' with a teenager more than two decades her junior.

Ruta Indrasiunaite, 38, from Mitcham, south London, was accused of having a relationship with then-17-year-old Royston Perry at HMP Cookham Wood, a Young Offenders' Institution in Rochester, Kent, between April and November, 2021.

The former prison officer appeared before magistrates in Sevenoaks on July 31 accused of misconduct in public office, bringing a prohibited article to a prison and taking a restricted document out of the establishment the same year.

It's alleged she engaged in a personal relationship with Perry, who is now 21, between April 29, 2021 and November 30, the same year.

She is said to have brought cannabis into the prison and took a restricted list of approved PIN telephone numbers for a prisoner.