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Female prison guard had secret love affair with violent lag who beat his ex-girlfriend
prison guard had a secret four-month love affair with a violent lag who had been locked up for beating his ex-girlfriend black and blue.Prison officer Alisha Fallows was spared jail after it emerged that she had a four-month fling with one of the inmates.Alisha Fallows, 23, formed a relationship with prisoner Damien Baxendale while working as a custody officer at HMP Lancaster Farms.The court heard of their "inappropriate" relationship, which spanned a period of time between November 2020 and February 2021, the Manchester Evening News reports.Baxendale, who hails from Bolton, is serving a ten-year jail term after being convicted in 2014 for violently assaulting his ex-girlfriend at the time.He is currently behind bars for two counts of grievous bodily harm with intent.His then-girlfriend suffered a bleed on the brain and a fractured eye socket after being kicked and punched so hard by Baxendale, writes LancashireLive.The pair communicated via mobile phones and the prison telephone system while Fallows posed as a family member, police said.Following a joint investigation between the Prison Anti-Corruption Unit at the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit and HM Prisons' NW Counter-Corruption Unit, she was arrested in December 2020 on suspicion of misconduct in a public office.For the latest breaking news stories and incredible tales from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here.Fallows, of Goldsmith Street, Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, pleaded guilty to the offence at an earlier hearing.On Friday, at Preston Crown Court, she was handed a 10-month jail sentence, suspended for two years, and ordered to complete 250 hours of unpaid work.Baxendale pleaded guilty to possession of a prohibited item and