A FEMALE prison officer has been jailed for five years and 10 months after falling in love with a killer 29 years her junior in jail and smuggling drugs and booze to run a big-money drugs ring.

Anita Allenby, 57, enjoyed a sexual prison romance with knife murderer Falak Alam, 28, at high-security HMP Full Sutton, East Yorkshire, a Category A prison.

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But struggling with an abusive husband and a loan, she got in over her head when she agreed to smuggle in MDNA, vodka and mobile phones.

Jailing Allenby at Hull Crown Court Judge David Tremberg told her: “To behave as you did was a root and branch abuse of trust and dereliction of a core duty. It is clear the scale of this operation was significant and by standard of prison supply substantial.”

Allenby picked up batches of steroids, cannabis, mobile phones and spice from Falak’s brother Arif, 32, in secret meetings outside the Category A prison.

She then hid the drugs inside her body and poured the vodka into prison water bottles to get past security checks.

Falak, who was 16 when he was jailed for life for stabbing a rival to death over a drugs debt in Leeds in 2007, flooded the prison with the contraband, flogging it for extortionate prices.

Spice, the synthetic cannabis danger drug gripping UK jails, was sold for up to £3,500 an ounce - more than ten times the street value. The steroids went for £5 a pill while the vodka was moved for a staggering £500 a litre.

Crown barrister Mark McKone told Hull Crown Court: “Anita Allenby had been a prison officer since 2005, but she fell in love with Falak Alam despite her being 29 years older than him. They had a sexual relationship. She said she loved him, but it is not known if he loved her – although he said he did.”

He said all Allenby and her boyfriend had conspired to smuggle drugs and phones in to prison where they could be sold for three times their original value. He said Allenby was tracked on cell phones to Leeds where Arif lived. Meanwhile, Arif was tracked near her home in Howden.

When police raided her home in Derwent Crescent, Howden, they found 67 love letters from Falak in a bedroom draw.

“The letters referred to spice, steroids and vodka - they were part of the overall picture of smuggling,” said Mr McKone. “There were letters saying porn on a memory stick “goes like hot cakes.” He referred to the drugs being distributed at weekends so authorities would think they were coming in domestic visits. He gave her his brother’s mobile phone. On referred to a loan and told her to stop thinking of money.”

He said police had recorded of 334 calls between Allenby and Arif and found four deleted texts which referred to supplying of mobile phones,

She was captured visiting Falak’s cell before 8am – when prison officer are not allowed.

The jail drugs empire came crashing down when a lag who owed money tipped off officers, who found letters detailing the money-spinning racket.

Mrs Allenby a mother of two of Derwent Crescent, Howden, and Falak Alam of HMP Wakefield pleaded guilty to two charges of conspiracy to supply MDNA and cannabis as well as a charge of conveying a prohibited article in to prison Arif Alam, Of Cross Kelso Road, Leeds, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply a class B drug and conveying a prohibited article in to prison. The offences took place over a five month period up to December 2014.

Defence barrister Patrick Palmer said Allenby had loved her job, but had fallen for Falak Alam after he bombarded her with love letters.

He said: “Having resisted for period of time, she ended up falling in love. He said he wanted to be with her when he comes out and talks about the great sex he is going to have with her.”

“He said he would not do anything to put her in danger.”

Sentencing Judge David Tremberg said: “You Falak Alam were a prisoner serving life for murder You Anita Allenby were a prison officer in Full Sutton Prison who began an illicit relationship with a prisoner. You defence Allenby say that you were seduced by Falak Alam. Whether there was affection on both sides it matters not. Anita Allenby you well knew the relationship was fundamentally incompatible with your role as a prison officer. To behave as you did was a root and branch abuse of trust and dereliction of a core duty. But you did so.

“The presence of drugs and mobile phones in any prison establishment is fundamentally contrary to good prison order. That is more so in a category A prison. You Falak played the leading roll you directed the operation, wee the ring leader organiser and you expect to profit financial. You Anita Allenby benefited financially from offending which required a fundamental abuse of trust to facilitate it. Each of you two played a leading role.”

He jailed Anita Allenby for five years and 10 months, Falak Alam was jailed for six years and three months and Arif Alam for two years and six months. Falak Alam’s sentence will not start until his scheduled early release date in May 2019.