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Topics: BBC, Crime, Documentaries
Jess Battison
The man who leaked the video of a prison officer having sex with an inmate has claimed ‘there was more’ that didn’t get released.
In January this year, Linda De Sousa Abreu was sentenced to 15 months after being identified in a viral clip filmed inside HMP Wandsworth.
While she was ultimately released after five months, there have been questions from many over just why and if she really did agree to be in the video and engage in the act.
And an upcoming BBC documentary focuses on that, as reporter Mobeen Azhar speaks with former inmates, prison officers, and others with similar stories.
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He also meets with one of De Sousa Abreu’s former colleagues who claims she had a ‘suspicious’ attitude before talking with Young Spray, the podcaster who posted the clip on social media.
Host of the RTM podcast, he tells Azhar he was sent the video on WhatsApp by his ‘bredrin in jail’ who ‘told’ him to post it.
“At first, I was more thinking, ‘Will I get nicked? For you know, posting like women, porn and stuff. I don’t know about all them laws. You know, if you’re posting people having sex and they don’t want you to post it,” Young Spray says during the documentary, Behind Bars: Sex, Bribes and Murder.
“So, I initially posted it but I deleted it coz I got nervous. I deleted it.” But he admits that when he did first post it, it ‘went mad straight away’.
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“But I deleted it so quick. That’s how nervous, you get what I’m saying? I started thinking about police and prison and bare things so I just deleted it,” he adds.
“And then I phoned him back, so I says ‘ah, I posted it but then I deleted it’. And he was like, ‘Stop moving like a p***y, it’s cool.’”
Young Spray is adamant that those who sent the video wanted it to be posted as they ‘wanna go viral’.
But he refused to name who sent him the clip and says he knew ‘nothing’ of the prison officer in the video other than she ‘obviously knows she’s being filmed'.
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Adding that De Sousa Abreu was ‘going mad’ in the clip, he claims ‘there was more’ to the video he received. However, he says he couldn’t post the whole thing because there’s ‘madness going on in the background’ and ‘names’ that could implicate people.
And there’s things he truly believes beside the person ‘who sent it’ wanting it out there, that De Sousa Abreu ‘must have known’.
Having been in prison himself, Young Spray explains: “You’ve still got the uniform so as soon as you’ve finished doing what you’re doing, you can go back into that mode, pass the phone, delete all of that and be on your way – but you didn’t.”
Throughout the doc, Azhar considers the possibilities from De Sousa Abreu willingly allowing the video to be posted for 'self-promotion' to having become corrupted.
Before going to court, the former officer posted an Instagram video to shut down claims.
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“I hope you can appreciate this is going to be a very awkward and uncomfortable conversation for me to have... I just thought I really needed to come on here and clarify a lot of things,” the OnlyFans creator said.
“First thing being, there has been a lot, a tremendous amount of fake profiles of me that have been monetising off my misfortune, this scandal that the entire world has somehow managed to be involved in.
“I have not monetised one f**king bit. At all. This is my only social media platform and I only just activated it again.”
Behind Bars: Sex, Bribes and Murder airs on Monday 27 October at 10pm on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer.