Love rat drug dealer who ‘manipulated’ prison officer into phone sex also had affair with nurse at same jail
A LOVE rat inmate who "manipulated" a prison officer into phone sex also had an affair with a nurse at the same jail.
Harri Pullen left Ruth Shmylo living in fear after they met while she was working at HMP Parc in Bridgend, Wales.
The 26-year-old admitted she had phone sex with the lag but insisted she told him to "stop".
Shmylo was yesterday cleared of misconduct in a public office following a trial.
It can now be revealed Pullen first had an illicit affair with nurse Elyse Hibbs, 25, while at the category B jail.
She was jailed in October last year over her "flirtatious" phone calls with the lag.
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Hibbs had worked at the prison since September 2018 and met the inmate when she gave him medical treatment.
Pullen was jailed for five years in 2019 over his role in a drug network that flooded South Wales with cocaine and heroin.
He was handed a further four years and nine months after a phone was found smuggled up his backside while being transferred in preparation for his release.
After he was moved to HMP Manchester in May 2021, Pullen got his mum and a pal to track her down in Instagram.
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She gave them her number and over the next five months, they exchanged texts and calls.
Hibbs signed off sick from work in June last year and resigned the next month.
On July 13 she was arrested and since been struck off by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
She was jailed for six months after she admitted misconduct in public office.
Following the affair, Shmylo was accused of embarking on a relationship with Pullen.
She had phone sex with the lag, who was part of an organised crime gang, and met his mother, it was alleged.
Cardiff Crown Court heard Shmylo had been quizzed by jail bosses over her "flirtatious" behaviour with inmates just months after starting her job.
Shmylo had allegedly contacted one lag over Facebook and was seen on CCTV blowing a kiss to a prisoner.
She also shunned her prison officer uniform to wear "skin-tight trousers", the court was told.
Her affair with Pullen started when the drug dealer passed a mobile number to Shmylo on a slip of paper, jurors heard.
The court heard she called him and the pair had "teenage" style chats and phone sex after the inmate began calling "daily".
Pullen messaged Shmylo wishing her "happy birthday princess girl" and arranged for his mother to meet up with her, it was said.
He also allegedly referred to the prison officer as his "Mrs" and repeatedly told her he was in love with her.
Jurors heard after she lost her job, Pullen was moved 200 miles to HMP Manchester but the pair still kept in touch.
The five-month alleged affair was rumbled after the couple's calls began being recorded when Pullen added Shmylo to his visitor's list.
After she was arrested, Shmylo made "several admissions" to police.
She admitted having phone sex with Pullen but claimed she tried to tell him to "stop".
During her evidence, Shmylo also said she was terrified of the lag and claimed he had threatened to kill her brother-in-law and cats.
She added: "'I never wanted to give him the wrong impression. Harri Pullen is a fantasist.
"I would never be friends with somebody who threatened to kill my family, kill me, threaten me. I'd never be friends with Harri Pullen.
"If I could give the impression I cared about him it was the safest way to keep me and my family safe."
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Shmylo, of Treforest, Pontypridd was cleared of one charge of misconduct in a public office.
