A woman is engaged to a prisoner who won't be released until 2032 - despite the fact they've never actually met.

Social work graduate Kelly Jacobs, 28, struck up a romance with James 'Wyatt' Dentel, who has been writing to her from his cell in Oregon.

Kelly, who lives in Heerlen in the Netherlands, began contacting him out of curiosity, but their pen pal relationship soon developed into something more after countless letters, emails and instant messenger conversations.