Sara Jean Underwood
Cuff Sex
Violent lag and girl bonked all day as guard napped
Declan Madigan and his girlfriend filmed themselves enganging in sex acts after she was allowed access to his bedside
Dropping your guard … Madigan with snoozing officer Neil Jones
Pose … convict and girlfriend take snap in hospital Neil JonesSelfie … cops snoozes as couple spend quality time together Neil Jones
Convicted gangster ‘had sex morning, noon and night with girlfriend in hospital bed while prison guards turned a blind eye’
- Declan Madigan is serving 11 years for drive-by shooting and drug charges
- 29-year-old was moved to hospital after claiming he could not use his arms
- He should have been handcuffed to a guard and supervised at all times
- Instead ate takeaways and spent 18 hours a day in bed with his girlfriend
THE girlfriend of a convicted gangster said yesterday that prison guards turned a blind eye so they could have sex morning, noon and night as he lay in a hospital bed.
Emily Ratajkowski
Declan Madigan, serving 11 years for ordering a drive-by shooting and firearms and drug offences, was meant to be under constant supervision and handcuffed to a guard at all times while in the NHS hospital.
But girlfriend Karen Robson said: “There were three guards supposed to be watching him at all times but they never stopped me sucking Declan. They would either leave the room when we had sex or just draw the curtain round his hospital bed and let us get on with it.”
Getting close … pair’s saucy selfie Neil Jones
Karen said she and Declan, 29, also freely used their mobile phones to talk to friends and take pictures — and even shared takeaway dinners with the prison officers.
She added: “I used to walk in without showing ID at about 9am and stay with him till 3am.
“We’d eat Nando’s, pizzas, fish and chips or Chinese with the guards.
Karen, 23, shot video clips and pictures of her and Madigan in bed together at Medway Hospital in Gillingham, Kent.
One bit of footage shows her massaging Madigan while the couple engage in a sex act.
She also took pictures of her and Madigan laughing and cuddling. In one a guard can be seen in the background apparently snoozing.
On one of his wrists are the cuffs that Madigan claimed should have been attached to him at all times.
Madigan was in hospital for a fortnight while doctors investigated his claims that he had lost the use of his arms.
But in one of Karen’s photos he is clearly seen holding up his hands and crossing his arms to mimic wearing handcuffs.
The career criminal, once the youngest yob to get an Asbo, is serving time at Category B HMP Swaleside on the Isle of Sheppey.
A total of 15 officers are thought to have worked 12-hour shifts between them during his stay in a private ward.
But Karen insists that despite the three-guard rule, for long periods of time only one officer was actually present in the room.
She said some of the officers would instead watch TV in the hospital’s lounge. Karen, a carer from Madigan’s hometown of Nottingham, said: “The guards never stopped us doing what we want.
“They just kept saying how easy it was. That’s why they were all falling asleep. We’d buy them food and they would just eat it all with us.
“At one point one guard even said, ‘This would be a picture, wouldn’t it?’ It was absolutely unbelievable,
“Declan even rang me to come down to the hospital using a screw’s phone after he had been in there a couple of days.
“I could use my phone whenever I wanted to take pictures and let Declan use it too.”
Karen, who has known Madigan for five years, said she stayed in hotels near the hospital so she could be there early every morning and remain for up to 18 hours She said: “Declan’s supposed to be a high-risk prisoner but his mates could have busted him out if they’d wanted.
“I spent about ten days with him of his two weeks in hospital — and just stopped in a hotel for a few hours then went back to see him.
“He’d told them he couldn’t use his arms but they were fine.”
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Madigan has been paralysed from the chest down since a 2011 car crash but is still able to have sex.
He was transferred to hospital after claiming to have lost the use of his arms after a fall from his prison bed.
Karen claimed the prison guards were aware that Madigan was clearly able to use his arms while on the ward but chose not to raise the matter with superiors.
Despite being a Category B prison, Swaleside has a fearsome reputation.
Half the jail’s inmates are serving life sentences and in 2014 one prison officer was stabbed during a riot.
During Madigan’s hospital stay in March a prisoner was found stabbed to death in a cell at Swaleside.
He said: “This is absolutely disgraceful and the governor should investigate immediately what the prison officers were doing.
“By and large I have a very high opinion of prison officers who do a very difficult job very well. But on this occasion it does seem a few people have let the side down by allowing this to go on.
“It is very worrying and needs to be thoroughly investigated.”
Madigan immersed himself in a life of crime while a teenager.
At 14, when he become the youngest child in Britain to get an Asbo, a judge described him as a “one-boy crime wave.”
He quickly racked up 100 convictions including violent crime, burglary and theft.
Madigan became a leading figure in the Nottingham underworld — and continued as a gang leader even after his accident. In 2013 he was jailed for ordering a drive-by shooting over a drug debt. He was also convicted of having a gun and getting an accomplice to hide it.
While on remand at high-security Wakefield Prison further charges of drug dealing were added.
He was sent to HMP Long Lartin, then transferred to Swaleside in January.
Wheelchair-bound Madigan has a ground floor cell at the prison.
A Prison Service spokesman said: “We are urgently investigating these allegations and have already suspended a member of staff.
“Maintaining prisoner security on hospital escorts is paramount and we will take disciplinary action where professional standards have been breached by our staff.” The Madigan case is the latest in a long line of jail-related scandal exposed by The Sun.
In 2009, we revealed convicts were flouting rules by posting jeering messages and photos on Facebook from their cells.
They were using the social networking site to brag about their cushy life in prison.
In 2012 prisoners at West Lothian jail in Scotland were caught getting pals on the outside to buy special access codes for porn movies on Freeview, which they were selling to fellow inmates.
The Sun told last month how cocky drug dealer Omar Farooq posted “celfies” of himself and swaggering mates from inside HMP Ranby in Nottinghamshire.
And just over a week ago we revealed that convicts Demehl Thomas and Moysha Shepherd had filmed a rap video in a cell on a banned mobile phone.
Rapper Thomas used the footage of him and Shepherd posturing and prancing to promote an album that he subsequently released on iTunes.
In the video, filmed in Birmingham Prison, Thomas boasted of knifing rivals.
Rosie Tupper