A PRISON guard who had a baby with her lag lover has revealed he is back behind bars after attacking her.
Rachel Stanton, 31, embarked on a relationship with Edwin Poole at HMP Five Wells in Northamptonshire where he was serving a ten-year sentence.
Edwin Poole ended up back behind bars for attacking her[/caption]
The mum-of-five romped in a storeroom with the armed robber but was caught when X-rated photos and a racy love letter were found in his cell.
She has now opened up about the illicit fling after she got pregnant with Poole’s baby – and revealed she is now back with her ex-husband.
Stanton maintains the tryst in the storeroom never took place – and insisted she only fell pregnant when Poole was freed from jail.
She also said Poole was sent back to prison for breaching his probation after he assaulted her – leaving her with bruises.
The mum told Channel 4 documentary UK Prisons – Sex, Drugs & Corruption: UNTOLD: “A few months later I saw a different side to him. He assaulted me.
“He was recalled for breaching probation. That was my saving grace.
“But I’ve now got a baby growing inside me with someone that I never ever want to see again in my life.”
Stanton was working as a trainee G4S security first line manager at HMP Five Wells in 2022 when she met Poole.
He had been jailed in 2018 for his part in a four-day spate of violent armed robberies.
After the relationship was discovered in July 2022, Stanton was suspended and Poole moved to another prison.
But the couple continued their relationship and had the child together but have since split.
Stanton told the show she has since been taken back by her ex-husband after they found shared ground over her new baby.
The mum added: “My husband and I reconnected. The baby was born three months early. Instantly they had that bond.
“As much as I regret the whole situation I can never regret her. I suppose in one respect I can never sit here and say I regret meeting him because I don’t regret her. But he was the biggest regret of my life.”
Stanton wept in July last year as spared jail for wilful misconduct in public office.
Stanton was instead handed a nine-month sentence, suspended for 18 months, and ordered to take part in 20 days rehabilitation activity.
Sentencing, Judge David Herbert KC said: “You should have known better.
“There was clear undisputable evidence between you that was discovered.
“She should have known what the boundaries were. It shouldn’t take training to know she shouldn’t be doing that.”
Despite her conviction, Stanton blamed the stress of her job for the affair and accused Poole of allowing it to be rumbled by not getting rid of her intimate photos.
She said: “As soon as I had done it and I had given it to him, I kind of said to him, look, you need to get rid of it. Flush it away. I’ll be honest I thought he had.
“I knew I’d done wrong, obviously I shouldn’t have done it, and I hold my hands up.”
She wept last year as she received a suspended sentence[/caption]
