A drug-running primary school teacher who tried to smuggle letters with narcotic drugs in prisons in Great Britain is banned from the classroom for life.
Vivienne Williams placed a number of fake packages soaked in the class B Drug Spice, which were intended for prisons in Nottingham, Wandworth and Cardiff.
The fake packages were all disguised as legal documents and were sent from the Wembley house of Williams while teaching children at the Elsley Primary School.
But the £ 17,000 drug ring of the unfortunate crook was exposed by the Nottingham police after they had intercepted some letters at HMP Lowdham Grange.
Williams was imprisoned for 30 months in October 2023, after he had guilty of two counts of conspiracy to transfer forbidden articles to prison, possession of articles for use in fraud and a communication infringement on the phone calls from the prison.
During her conviction, a judge said that the actions of the disgrace have roughly set the systems and protection by the prison '.
Williams, 30, is now exiled from the classroom for life, after a probe of the Teaching Regulation Authority (TRA).
From the educational watchdog, William's actions found 'considerable shortage of the expected standards of the profession'.
Teacher Vivienne Williams placed a number of fake packages soaked in the class B Drug Spice, which were intended for prisons in Nottingham, Wandworth and Cardiff
The £ 17,000 drug ring of the unfortunate crook was exposed by the Nottingham police after they intercepted some letters on HMP Lowdham Grange (photo)
“The panel found this behavior completely incompatible with being a teacher,” the TRA concluded in his report.
Williams started working at the Elsley Primary School in September 2016, the panel said.
But by 2020, the Crooked Teacher had set up its own drug smuggling.
Williams appeared to contact a prisoner at HMP Lowdham Grange in July 2020, said Nottinghamshire's police.
The reason behind the contact was to try to set up a three -way telephone conversation with prisoners who were imprisoned elsewhere in the UK.
But in October 2020 a number of packages were marked and chopped as legal documents, but with paper containing herbs, seized when they arrived in Lowdham Grange.
Others were later found to be sent to other prisons – including HMPS Woodsworth and Cardiff – from the Wembley house by Williams.
The plot was first discovered after a probe of the East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU).
The total value of the seized drugs was estimated at £ 17,000, but would have been “considerably more worthy if it had entered the prih,” the police said.
Williams was a teacher at the Elsley Primary School, in Wembley, at the time of her crimes
The staff of the Elsley Primary School were told about the arrest of Williams on 8 June 2021. Williams resigned from her position on the primary days later, on June 16.
At the time, Detective Inspector Richard Cornell said from the Emsou: 'Vivienne Williams was an important player in this conspiracy to deliver mind-expanding drugs to prisoners.
'She operated her legitimate telephone access to a prisoner by pleading in others for the calls, so that they could make their criminal plans and then followed with those plans by helping with the movement of the drugs.
“Fortunately we were quickly on them and the entire illegal operation was brought to an end before the drugs could reach their intended recipients.”
The judge said that Williams believed that her hidden drugs disguised because legal letters would mean that they would be able to slide past prison controls.
“Williams used the stamps that she had to appear that the letters she sent were from lawyers and contain privileged legal communication, with the conviction that the prison should not open or investigate the content of those letters,” the judge said when the TRA reported.
“Moreover, Miss Williams enabled people to communicate with others to which they were not entitled, as an intermediary act on some calls and receiving calls from illegally possessed phones on other occasions.”
Williams sent drugs from her address in this street in Wembley, London
Sarah Buxcey, a judgment about the educational secretary Bridget Phillipson, concluded: 'Miss Vivienne Williams is forbidden to teach for an indefinite period of time and cannot teach a school, sixth form college, relevant youth accommodation or children's house in England.
“Moreover, given the seriousness of the accusations found against her, I decided that Miss Williams will not have the right to recover her to teach.”
Di Cornell added: 'Drugs in prison will not be tolerated because its use is not only illegal, but also endangers the health and safety of prisoners and staff.
“I am happy that the judge has recognized the seriousness of the case with the prison sentence.”
Williams, of rather good character, has 28 days to appeal against the prohibition command of the TRA. She didn't go to the tra -hearing session.
