Baby killer Lucy Letby is currently comfortably spending her time in a private jail, whilst receiving round-the-clock protection, angering a number of her fellow inmates.
Letby, serving whole life sentence for murdering seven babies, currently has access to an en-suite shower, a desk, phone and TV. One source claimed she was being treated with ‘kid gloves’ because of her status.
The 33-year-old is yet to get a prison job and has been able to dye her hair brown during her time behind bars.
The former nurse was recently moved to the privately-run HMP Bronzefield near Ashford, Surrey, from the notoriously rowdy Low Newton jail in County Durham.
Letby’s treatment is said to be infuriating a lot of the fellow prisoners, who have earned more rights to watch TV, spend their cash and have visits.
Letby, serving whole life sentence for murdering seven babies, currently has access to an en-suite shower, a desk, phone and TV.
The former nurse was recently moved to the privately-run HMP Bronzefield near Ashford, Surrey, from the notoriously rowdy Low Newton jail in County Durham
Letby’s treatment is said to be infuriating a lot of the fellow prisoners, who have earned more rights to watch TV, spend their cash and have visits
A source told the Sun: ‘Letby seems happy as Larry. She is in a nice cell and on her own. The facilities at Bronzefield are much nicer than most jails, because its privately run.
‘She is with prisoners who have earned more rights to watch TV, spend their cash and have visits. It is a disgrace and it’s no wonder she’s been looking so happy. She seems to be treated with kid gloves because of who she is.’
Letby, of Hereford, was given the whole life sentence for murdering seven babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015 and 2016.
She was held in segregation at first to stop her being attacked by fellow inmates and was jailed in Low Newton alongside Joanna Dennehy, who murdered three men during a ten-day spree in 2013.
Both Letby and Dennehy were sentenced to whole life orders. The only other women to have faced such a punishment are Moors murderer Myra Hindley – who died in 2002 – and Rose West.
Past inmates at Low Newton have included Cromwell Street killer Rose West, Baby P’s mother Tracey Connelly and Britain’s youngest female murderer Sharon Carr, who randomly selected and killed her victim when she was 12.
At the top security prison, killer women get the chance to pet sheep and goats and look after a rabbit and birds as a way to keep them ‘calm’.
A Bronzefield spokesman said: ‘We can’t comment on individual cases.’
Letby was originally held in HMP Bronzefield in Surrey, but was subsequently moved to HMP New Hall in Wakefield for the trial.
After sentencing, she was taken to Low Newton, which is located in the village of Brasside near Durham.
Letby will remain a suicide risk, and staff would be heavily – and very publicly – criticised if such a prominent prisoner were to take her own life.
A suicide watch cannot be continued indefinitely, however – certainly not for years or decades, as it places too great a strain on the staff.
It is a matter of judgment when a watch is lifted, and it is not a precise science.