Love-struck prison officer now behind bars after inmate boyfriend convinced her to smuggle cannabis into HMP Birmingham
A Black Country prison officer is now behind bars after her inmate boyfriend convinced her, his sister and a family friend to smuggle drugs into HMP Birmingham for him.
Carla Moskot-Brettell, of Stour Hill, Quarry Bank, worked at HMP Hewell when her boyfriend Darren Oakes was remanded in custody at HMP Birmingham on sexual crime charges.
Instead of washing her hands of him the prison officer, with three years' service under her belt, used prison service computer systems to keep tabs on his health and convinced two women, a mother of five and a pillar of the community, to smuggle cannabis into HMP Birmingham.
Despite knowing prison phone calls were recorded the love-struck officer followed Oakes's instructions how to get cannabis into the clink.
Oakes, 48 and now of HMP Oakwood, and Moskot-Brettell convinced his sister, Louise Docker of Birmingham Street, Halesowen, to buy the drugs and paid family friend Patricia Bucknell, of Clent View Road, Cradley, to visit the jail and slip the contraband into food for the lag to swallow.
Messages whizzed between them including instructions to buy a quarter of skunk weed, which cost around £60 but was worth £2,000 behind bars, and a guide to getting the drugs past sniffer dogs.
They succeeded in January and February last year but their third attempt in March failed when during a visitation the prisoner could not swallow the tightly wrapped contraband which he was meant to retrieve in the hours after.
Nine days later on March 22, Moskot-Brettell, 35, Patricia Bucknell, 52, and Louise Docker, 41, were arrested and their houses raided.
