Prison worker jailed after plot to smuggle cannabis, steroids, and phones into HMP Onley
A prison officer who planned to use her position to smuggle items including mobile phones and illegal drugs into jail has been jailed.
Police intercepted Tori Muddyman, 31, after receiving a report she intended to carry illegal and banned items into HMP Onley in Northamptonshire.
A later search of her garage uncovered a bag containing cannabis, steroids, a mobile phone, SIM cards and chargers, alcohol and tobacco.
Following Muddyman’s arrest, in July 2019, she went on to admit she had accepted £2,500 from a serving prisoner to bring banned items into work with her.
In interview, Muddyman claimed that although she had got the bag from a woman at Rugby train station, she did not go through with smuggling anything into the prison.
In the prisoner’s cell, investigators found fake drink cans containing drugs, and a mobile phone - while bank records linked two of his known associates with payments made to her.
Muddyman, the prisoner, and two women who made bank payments were charged.
Muddyman, of Clarkson Close, Nuneaton, went on to admit one count of conspiracy to convey list A articles (drugs) and one count of conspiracy to convey list B articles (phones) into a prison at a court hearing in 2021.
At Worcester Crown Court in July this year, Muddyman was sentenced to a year in prison.
Det Insp Richard Cornell said: “Prison officers have a duty and responsibility to maintain the safety and security of their workplace and those residing within it.
“This includes preventing the presence of illegal drugs and prohibited items such as mobile phones and alcohol.
“Tori Muddyman made a series of terrible decisions that undermined that responsibility and, had she carried these items into HMP Onley, would have contributed to ongoing criminality and risk of harm to both inmates and staff.
“This has been a complex and long-running investigation, and I am pleased to see matters conclude with Muddyman receiving a custodial sentence which reflects the seriousness of her actions.
“Our team are dedicated to rooting out criminal activity in prisons, including by those responsible for upholding law and order within their walls.”
In 2022, the prisoner involved received a further sentence of three years and four months, and the second woman who transferred money to Muddyman received a nine-month sentence, suspended for two years.
In April 2025, the woman who met Muddyman at the train station and also transferred money to her was sentenced to two years and three months’ imprisonment after being convicted at trial.
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