Aylesbury mother proud of 'girly girl' prison officer daughter

Mother and daughter Linda and Tayler Myburgh work together at HMP Aylesbury

A mother has said she is proud of her "very girly girl" who has joined her to work at the same prison.

Linda and Tayler Myburgh are both employed at HMP Aylesbury, a category C prison for about 400 men.

Ms Myburgh believes her daughter was influenced to join the same profession after she told her about her job.

Miss Muburgh, 21, said she liked to get her lashes and nails done, so "I shock people when I say that I'm a prison officer".

Linda Myburgh used to work for a charity at the prison, supporting young offenders, before returning last year as a business administrator

Before joining the Buckinghamshire prison in December 2022, Miss Myburgh worked in the elderly-care industry. Her mother is the facility's safer-prisons business administrator.

Miss Myburgh said: "For me, being young, I think I shock people when I say that I'm a prison officer working at Aylesbury prison.

"I like to get my lashes done, I like to get my nails done. I'm very girly.

"There's also the stereotype of men working in the jail rather than women, but I think there are more women than men working as officers."

Linda and Tayler Myburgh said they were "best friends"

Her mother, 57, said: "Tayler's a very girly girl, and she likes nice things and dressing up.

"It's like I've got two Taylers - one at work and one at home. Tayler and I were probably the first mother and daughter duo [at the prison].

"I'm very proud of Tayler, and I'm proud of the achievements that she's completed in her life up until now, and I'm hoping she'll go further, and I know she will."

Miss Myburgh said: "People don't always see what else goes on. People just think they're prisoners, but at the end of the day we're there to look after them, we have a duty of care, and we're there to support them.

"It's a learning curve on a daily basis and I'm all about knowledge and learning things from other people, and sometimes I feel that we can learn from the prisoners that we work with as well."