Disgraced footy WAG Arabella Del Busso has revealed she was threatened with a knife by one other feminine prisoner, is commonly robbed by inmates and has endured a number of invasive strip searches by jail guards.
In an anguished handwritten letter from her jail cell in Sydney‘s north-west, the previous reality TV present star details her humiliating life behind bars, describing how she has to bathe, change and go to the bathroom in entrance of different feminine prisoners.
Within the letter, obtained by Every day Mail Australia, the 34-year-old recounts being threatened by a fellow prisoner, saying ‘I used to be … threatened with being stabbed with a shive’ [sic]. That could be a reference to a ‘shiv’, jail slang for a jail-made knife or blade original from steel or plastic.
The one-time SAS actuality TV present contestant additionally describes the strip searches she undergoes weekly as ‘traumatising’.
Arabella Del Busso says she has discovered a number of strip searches in jail humiliating and has written a graphic description of what she has to endure every time she has a contact go to
The 34-year-old convicted thief spent three weeks at Silverwater Ladies’s jail (above) earlier than being transferred to Dillwynia the place she has been threatened with a jail made knife
‘The strip searches … haven’t solely been traumatising however have made me really feel violated as a consequence of having to take away my clothes in entrance of two officers,’ Del Busso wrote.
‘One stands in entrance of you and one different behind you, you might be then required to elevate up your bra and present your breasts.
‘Then both pull your underwear right down to your knees or fully off, bend over unfold your bum cheeks and elevate one foot up at a time.’
Del Busso’s jail recordsdata will be revealed after she failed in a bid to be released from prison on a community order.
As an alternative, she is being forced to spend another three months behind bars for stealing $52,000 from her employer when she was working as a receptionist.
Del Busso grew to become a infamous determine after it was revealed that she lied that she was pregnant to her ex-boyfriend, rugby league star Josh Reynolds.
She is presently locked up within the 531-inmate capability Dillwynia Correctional Centre, in Berkshire Park.
She had spent three-and-a-half weeks on the robust feminine jail, the Silverwater Womens Correctional Centre, the place she she stated she had a ‘very trusted position’ as a sweeper.
However her snug life at that jail ended along with her switch to Dillwynia – the place she now feels ‘uncomfortable’ performing personal acts in entrance of different inmates.
’In such a confined area, not solely has it made me really feel uncomfortable as a consequence of having to bathe, use the bathroom and get undressed and wearing entrance of them,’ she wrote.
Del Busso, now 34, stated different feminine prisoners commonly steal meals from her utilizing violence as a risk and because of this she has misplaced weight behind bars and is locked up for 17 hours an evening
The ex-footy WAG additionally described the humiliation of getting to share a cell with one other feminine inmate in whose firm she has to undress, bathe and go to the bathroom
Del Busso informed a pal and a forensic psychologist ‘inmates would steal her meals’ and that she is commonly ‘stood over for buy-ups (and) if she doesn’t comply she has been threatened with violence’.
She stated since her being locked up eight weeks in the past she has endured the degrading actuality of sharing a tiny cell with different feminine criminals
‘It has made me really feel unsafe as being a excessive profile standing it comes with inmates understanding or discovering out who I’m.’
In an affidavit to her lawyer, Del Busso stated: ‘I attempt to get by way of every day, and maintain my head down, however however every day feels so lengthy and laborious.
‘I didn’t embrace issues in my letter intentionally as a result of I used to be conscious that gaol employees would learn the content material of my letter.
‘And I didn’t need them to find out about this stuff for concern it could compromise my security in gaol.’
One of many guests areas at Dillwynia jail the place Del Busso is now serving a 5 month sentenced for ‘brazen’ theft
Del Busso was jailed on February 13 for stealing $52,350 from Rheumotology Specialist Care.
She labored as a receptionist in its practices at Kogarah, in Sydney’s south, and Randwick, within the metropolis’s east between 2019 and 2020.
Decide John Pickering referred to as the thefts ‘brazen’ and a Justice of the Peace described her strategies of perpetrating the dishonest acts as ‘elaborate’.
When she is launched from jail in July, Del Busso plans to ‘proceed my boxing profession the place folks will forgive be impressed and look as much as myself’.
‘Being in custody has opened my eyes and taught me gratitude, realigned my values and made me realise that not solely my actions affected myself, but additionally my family members round me.
‘Not solely have I let myself down, however I’ve let my family members, associates and followers down.’
