A female prison officer, the Weymouth Paedophile Lover, Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington, who attempted to establish a family with a paedophile child rapist inmate with whom she fell in love, has acknowledged her awareness of his status as a sex offender, nevertheless believed he would offer her a ‘stable life’.
Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington, 29, expressed her ‘relief’ after being spared incarceration this week, having confessed to a six-month extramarital romance with child molester Bradley Trengrove while employed as a warden at HMP The Verne in Portland, Dorset.
Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington and Bradley Trengrove, who was serving a 13-year sentence for the rape of a woman and engaging in sexual contact with a child, commenced their affair in August 2022 and engaged in sexual intercourse up to 40 times, frequently in prison workshops where they were not seen, as revealed during her trial.
The female jail warden informed the paedophile Bradley Trengrove of her pregnancy in November 2022; however, she subsequently experienced a miscarriage after eight weeks.
Following the transfer of the ‘very dangerous’ convict to another jail in March 2023, she visited him under an alias and concealed a Calpol syringe in her bra in an attempt to ‘artificially inseminate’ herself with his sperm, which he had encased in cling film.
Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington, a resident of Weymouth, was apprehended after prison officials discovered she was not wearing undergarments and possessed an empty syringe concealed in her bra during a visit on May 26, 2023.
Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington acknowledged, ‘I was aware he was a sex offender due to the nature of the facility being designated for sex offenders.’
She stated, “I desired a stable existence.” That is what I desired. I am uncertain why I even considered the notion of Bradley. I believe I was merely seeking someone to provide me with support. I desired the stable existence that I was unable to get elsewhere.
Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington, 29, attempted to conceive with the ‘exceptionally dangerous’ rapist, Bradley Trengrove.
Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington, employed at HMP The Verne since 2019, pleaded guilty to misconduct in a public office but received a suspended two-year sentence due to her resulting wheelchair confinement from a spinal stroke following her offences.
“It has been somewhat relieving that it has been suspended.”
Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington disclosed that her contact with the paedophile Bradley Trengrove commenced when she was in a state of emotional distress and homelessness following the dissolution of her partnership with the father of two of her children.
She asserted that she joined the Prison Service in 2019 to ‘effectuate change,’ but quickly recognised that ‘this is not the essence of the prison service’ and encountered difficulties working at a men’s facility.
Timeline of prison guard’s fairy tale romance:
- July 2019: Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington starts working at HMP The Verne
- January 2022: Bradley Trengrove is transferred to The Verne to serve his 13-year sentence for rape and having sexual activity with a child.
- August 2022: The prison guard and inmate start an illicit relationship, having sex up to 40 times.
- November 2022: Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington tells Bradley Trengrove she is pregnant but she loses the baby after around eight weeks.
- March 2023: Bradley Trengrove is moved to HMP Channings Wood in Devon.
- May 2023: Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington attempts to visit Bradley Trengrove under a false name with a Calpol syringe so she can collect his sperm and ‘artificially inseminate’ herself. She is arrested after the visit.
- November 2023: Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington gets engaged to her new partner, whom she met in July that year – two months after her arrest.
- February 2024: She suffers a stroke of the spine and is left paralysed and in a wheelchair.
- May 2025: Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington avoids jail after the judge handed her a two-year suspended sentence due to her life-changing injury. She has hailed her new partner as her ‘rock’ who has got her through the accident.
‘When the relationship [with the paedophile Bradley Trengrove] started, I was homeless, there was a lot going on with my family. I was trying to look after my family as well as deal with life as a mum of three kids and working and being put into temporary accomodation with the kids.
‘Things were very difficult. I didn’t have anybody to turn to or talk to. I just wasn’t in a very good place or a stable mind at the time and Bradley came along.’
She continued: ‘I look back at it now, and I see how manipulative his behaviour was at the time. At the time I saw somebody trying to help me out.’
When asked if she knew he was a rapist, she said: ‘I knew he was a sex offender because it’s a sex offenders’ prison.’
But she claims he told him that he would be out in three months and had been framed over the rape and sexual activity with a minor.
Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington said: ‘When the police read me his sheet of offences I was so shocked and honestly disgusted. He’s a very dangerous man.’
Speaking about how she feels about having sex with a convicted child rapist paedophile, she said: ‘I don’t believe that he’s innocent at all. It’s disgusting.
‘It’s not something that is not nice to hear, or even think about. I feel disgusted.
‘I’m ashamed of what’s happened.’
During the affair, Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington smuggled a mobile phone into the Category C prison for her paedophile lover so they could communicate.
The mother-of-three saved his name in her mobile under ‘husband to be’, a court heard. Her lawyer said they ‘formed a very intense and infatuated relationship’.
Speaking about their relationship, she said: ‘There were a lot of feelings involved at the time. He would come to me and would say “I’m going to build a house for us, I’ve spoken to my family, I’ve got a plot of land. Your children are going to have a home.
‘”When I get out in a few months like this is all going to be over like we’re not going to have anything to worry about.”‘
Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington claims that although the trial heard the pair had sex 30 to 40 times, although she lied and said she can ‘count on my hands how many times we had sex’.
She alleges that the paedophile kept saying he wanted to have a baby with her but she was on the coil – an IUD which prevents pregnancy by releasing copper into the womb.
‘He removed my coil from me,’ she claimed.
‘After that, we had unprotected sex. I did fall pregnant and I had a miscarriage a few weeks after.’
In March 2023, Bradley Trengrove was moved to HMP Channnings Wood in Devon, where Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington tried to send him intimate photos which staff intercepted.
She was finally snared when she tried to visit him using a fake name on May 26 2023, when she tried to smuggle in a syringe to collect the paedophile’s sperm.
Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington admits she took a Calpol syringe into prison to ‘inseminate’ herself with Bradley Trengrove’s sperm – but claims she was never going to go through with trying to get pregnant that way.
‘Whilst I was sat outside the prison waiting to go in – and he’d been phoning me that morning as well – he was telling me that he wanted a baby with me. If he couldn’t have that, then he was going to kill himself.
‘He told me to bring a syringe in and was asking me to to inseminate myself with it, which I was absolutely disgusted by when he said it.
‘I took the syringe in just so I could show him I had it so he didn’t do anything to himself. It wasn’t so I could carry out what he planned.’
Speaking of the moment she was caught, she said: ‘I just felt sick to be honest. I didn’t know what to do with myself.
‘I remember them taking me into the cell and strip searching me.’
Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington met her new partner just two months after being arrested and they tied the knot in November 2024.
‘He knew everything from the start. I told him everything from the start,’ she said.
The couple have just moved into a new house which is more suited to her disability.
Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington became besotted with the sex offender after he was moved to HMP The Verne in Portland, Dorset
Judge Jonathan Fuller KC said: ‘Had it not been for the accident that befell Miss Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington, the sentence would have been an immediate sentence of imprisonment.’
In a message to other female prison officers falling for inmates, Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington said: ‘If people are having a tough time, then they need to reach out to somebody else.
‘There is help out there for officers that need it.
‘What I did I massively regret and I am ashamed of it and disgusted.’
Sources close to the mother-of-three say she has ‘gotten away’ with not going to jail.
One said ‘She never was a nice person. She’s never going to change. She’s gotten away with it really. I don’t understand it [the fling], especially with three young kids, I don’t understand it at all.’
Emily Cook, defending the paedophile lover Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington argued that her client should not be jailed due to her ill-health
And a landlady, who rented her Weymouth flat out to Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington between December 2022 and March 2025, said she was ‘not surprised at all’ that the prison guard ended up having a fling with an inmate
‘I think it’s her character to be honest. There are so many young women having the same – falling in love with inmates. I can’t comprehend it.’
The landlady said it was ‘not fair’ that she’d been spared jail for having a fling with a child molester paedophile inmate, adding: ‘This is something that’s not humanly possible. My mind would never imagine or comprehend this situation.’
Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington has hailed her new partner, who has ‘loveable c***’ tattooed across his chest, as her ‘rock’ who has got her through her life-changing accident.
The besotted couple have also stayed together during the trial, which started at Poole Magistrates’ Court in August 2024 and came to a close with the sentencing at Bournemouth Crown Court this week.
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