Overview
- Stephanie Adair admitted misconduct in public office for carrying on an inappropriate personal relationship with inmate Jahki Crosdale while she worked at HMP Wandsworth.
- Crosdale pleaded guilty to unauthorised transmission of images or sound sent from inside prison, with prosecutors saying Adair kept contact using his illicit mobile phone.
- Both defendants were granted unconditional bail and will be sentenced on 9 February 2027, with the judge instructing them to cooperate with pre-sentencing reports and warning that sentencing can proceed without them if they do not attend.
- Adair was suspended from her role and in 2025 was placed under a Nursing and Midwifery Council conditions-of-practice order that barred her from working in prisons while the case progressed.
- The affair occurred at HMP Wandsworth, a jail already criticised for overcrowding, violence and self-harm, and the case is likely to increase scrutiny of staff conduct, phone contraband controls and wider prison safety measures.