Prison worker drug mule cried 'I love you' to family when jailed for £1m cocaine plot

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A prison staff member who sneaked drugs into jail and used her own home as a "safehouse" sobbed "I love you" to her family as she was locked up.Megan Woodham, a healthcare assistant at HMP Risley in Warrington, used her own home for a multi-million pound cocaine plot.

The employee concealed shipments of drugs, which she would then hand over to inmate Daniel Doran. The mule also used her home as the "safehouse" for a wider ring involved in the supply of millions of pounds of cocaine, members of which were handed lengthy spells behind bars at Liverpool Crown Court this afternoon, Tuesday, the Liverpool Echo reports.

A trial previously heard that Doran - of Hall Lane in Kirkby - was a serving prisoner at HMP Risley between December 2021 and February 2022, with Woodham having been employed as a health worker in the jail.David Watson, prosecuting, described how they - together with co-defendants Kelsey Higgins and John Butler - were "involved in the supply of a very large quantity of high purity cocaine".The inmate had access to a mobile phone while behind bars and "organised the moving of cocaine from location to location" from his cell "under the noses of authorities".

Woodham was said to have "formed some sort of relationship" with the 32-year-old through her work and would "willingly assist him by allowing her home address to be used for the storage of parcels" of drugs.Higgins meanwhile was described as a close associate of Doran's cousin Butler, who was arrested while travelling to his home in possession of 10kg of cocaine on January 8 last year.