Jail boss checked inmate as ‘mum didn’t know where he was’

A jail boss accused of carrying out an unauthorised check on a prisoner claimed she did it because the inmate’s mother ‘didn’t know where he was.’ Jessica Nichols, 42, had worked at Feltham Young Offenders’ Institution since 2017 and was head of security, Southwark Crown Court has heard. Her husband Pete Nichols, 49, had held senior roles at HMP Wormwood Scrubs including Head of Intelligence and Security and Head of Business Assurance. Nichols along with convicted criminal Gareth Casella, 43,…