I’ve seen a lot, been here over 20 years, Sarah’s one of the best manipulators I’ve seen.'Īn inmate is handcuffed before being allowed to leave her cell: Sir Trevor learned from one inmate, Brooke, that pregnant prisoners have to be shackled to the bed whilst they are giving birth to their babies 'She made him feel like she was going to save him she’d be his everything. Talking about the prison officer who helped her, Sergeant McPherson said: 'He was having problems at home and she preyed on that. And she’s been there for a record time.'īut a warder explained how Pender was able to manipulate others to get her way. 'She is now in this unit where she gets an hour a day out, which I think is very tough. 'So what she did encapsulates a lot of what the prison fears most. 'That borders with her original crime, two people were shot, her actual role in pulling the trigger was questionable or controversial, but she bought the gun. Because she managed to do it, the story is built up around her that she is extraordinarily manipulative. 'The entire system is rigged so that you don’t do that, and she manages to do it. You’re not supposed to be able to do that,' he said. You’re not supposed to suborn a male officer. 'She managed to get up the noses of the authorities. Understanding: Despite being warned of her past and ability to manipulate, after the hours he spent with her Sir Trevor admitted he felt sympathy for Pender, who has been kept in solitary confinement for a record time Pender was then on the run for four months and became America’s most wanted female criminal. Her notoriety soared in 2008 when she seduced a prison guard and persuaded him to help her escape. They were shot by her boyfriend, but she helped him dispose of the bodies and the prosecution convinced a jury that she had manipulated him into the killing.
She was in 2000 sentenced to 110 years behind bars for murdering two people she lived with. I don’t know him from anywhere, h doesn’t know me from anywhere… so when I thought about it, I thought, "I almost took an innocent man’s life".'Īt the same prison, Sir Trevor spent hours with double murderer Sarah Pender, who was once America's most wanted woman and who was described by guards as a 'female Charles Manson'. 'But, after the fact I felt bad because this is an innocent man. When he asked her how she felt when she learned that she had blinded her victim, she admitted: 'I didn’t have any feeling at all about it.
Sir Trevor also met inmates at Indiana Women's Prison, including double-murderer Sarah Pender who was for a time America's most wanted woman after she seduced a male warder and got him to help her escape