A woman prison officer hanged herself after the inmate she left her husband for stole $6,000 from her bank account.
Karen Mulliner, who worked at Rochester Young Offenders’ Institute, Kent, was so distraught that Michael Grey had stolen from her after they set up home together that she decided to end her own life.
He was jailed for eight months after posing for a picture on Facebook that showed him waving wads of cash around that he had withdrawn from her account.
Miss Mulliner, 36, fell for Grey, who was 15 years younger than her, while he was serving a prison sentence.
After he was released from prison she quit her job, left her husband and moved out of the couple’s marital home in Essex which was later sold.
She went to live with Grey, who was 20 at the time, into a flat in Christchurch, Dorset.
Miss Mulliner kept her affair secret from her family until it went wrong and she told Grey she wanted to end it.
He then withdrew £300 a day for three weeks from cash machines.
Miss Mulliner told employers at Poole Borough Council where she worked as a domestic violence support officer that the ‘last straw’ was when he put the picture up on Facebook.
Three days later, on September 13 last year, she hanged herself.
Prosecutor Thomas Horder told Bournemouth Crown Court, where Grey appeared on fraud charges, said they met in 2007.
After the couple’s relationship broke down, he said, she told her sister about it.
