Jury set to consider verdicts in sex trial of West Yorkshire women's prison officer

Jurors are due to retire to consider verdicts in the trial of a prison officer accused of having a sexual affair with an inmate at a West Yorkshire women's jail.

Iain Cocks is accused of abusing his position by having a sexual relationship for almost two years with the inmate at HMP New Hall, near Wakefield.

Cocks, 51, is also accused of engaging in flirtatious behaviour with another prisoner before sexually assaulting her in her cell.

Married Cocks – whose wife also works at the prison – is alleged to have committed the offences between June 2015 and May 2017.

Prosecutors claim Cocks had sex with the woman against a washing machine in the prison laundry room, in her cell and in a staff room.

The court heard Cocks went to her cell at 6am on New Year’s Day 2016 and had sex with her.

Cocks, of Barnsley, denies two offences of misconduct in a public office and one of sexual assault.