Prison guard Melissa Goodwin’s love letter to inmate Corey London revealed
Court documents have divulged details of a female prison guard’s illicit love letter to her jailbird beau.
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A NSW prison guard warned her jailbird beau of the “risks” she was taking for him, warning: “I hope I am right this time”, according to court documents.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal details of the illicit handwritten love letter from suspended officer Melissa Goodwin, 25, to Corey London, 21, while he was in Long Bay prison.
Goodwin will be sentenced later this year after pleading guilty to having a relationship with an inmate.
“I don’t know if you truly understand the risks and consequences I am taking for you. I hope I am right this time,” Goodwin tells London in the letter sent January 25, 2020, tendered to Burwood Local Court.
Goodwin gushes about London’s “amazing” blue eyes and says she wrote the letter in purple because it was his favourite colour.
“Firstly, I am writing in my purple uni pen as I know you like purple. I’ll wait until you’re out to do my nails purple so you can see them in real life,” she said.
“I see a lot of good in you especially in those amazing blue eyes you have, I love them.”
She ponders her life with London out of jail and offers to pick him up on release.
“I want to learn more about you, to know what I’m getting myself into. I think you’re handsome, and have so much potential but your protective nature and choice of friends gets you in trouble,” she wrote.
“I know in there you need to be tough but you’ll never need to be like that with me. You have a big heart like me, it gets us into trouble. Miss you heaps, counting down the days, if only it was before Valentine’s Day!”
And she asks him to be extra careful about their romance to avoid getting caught.
“Can you please get your mum to msg me updates on you? Please be so careful what you say to her about me over the phone and make sure she is too,” she wrote.
“What I want from you is to stay positive, to smile, stay out of the “bizzo”, as you call it, and focus on all the changes you are going to make when you get out.”
Goodwin has pleaded not guilty to smuggling London contraband into jail, including a packet of White Ox tobacco, two cigarette lighters and Extra chewing gum.
A few months after the letter was sent, Goodwin was suspended after developing a relationship with ex-con and Rebels associate Caleb Lavari, while he was on bail.
She was never charged for her relationship with Lavari.
Police prosecutors indicated this week they may drop the smuggling charges after London - their key witness - refused to give evidence in court about the romance.
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