Inmate ‘paid besotted prison nurse to smuggle in phones’

A prison nurse became infatuated with an inmate and told him ‘I want to rape you LOL’ on WhatsApp, a court heard. Shantho Newman, 38, became besotted with Daniel Eduardo while working in the health care unit at Wormwood Scrubs Prison in west London, jurors heard. Eduardo allegedly arranged for Newman to be paid at least £2,000 for smuggling phones into the Category B men’s prison between February and April 2017. Prosecutor Nicholas Dunham said: ‘This is a case about…

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