Lucy Letby's 'violent' prison next to "Monster Mansion" - boiling water attacks and sex favours for food
dailyrecord.co.ukEvil child serial killer Lucy Letby is set to die behind bars after fooling her friends and family into believing she was just an ordinary young woman.The former NHS neonatal nurse, 33, has become the fourth woman in Britain to be handed a whole-life order, which is used for only the most horrendous crimes.Her campaign of terror on innocent babies in her care took place between June 2015 and June 2016 at the Countess of Chester Hospital, where she deliberately harmed them.Her twisted actions included injecting infants with air and insulin or overfeeding them with milk.
She was escorted out of her child-like bedroom in handcuffs five years ago and put into the back of a police car.This was followed by a lengthy 10-month trial in which she was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others.While she has spent time in four prisons so far, nothing will have prepared her for her new lifelong sentence as a Category A prisoner with a target on her head, the Mirror reports.The average life sentence is 16.5 years, but 'whole-lifers' cannot escape as the Parole Board will never review their case.
Letby will likely start her sentence in either HMP Bronzefield in Surrey, where she's already served time, or at HMP Low Newton, in Durham.Bronzefield is the largest women's prison in Europe, where Rose West spent time before being transferred.
Current inmates include Shauna Hoare, who was found guilty of manslaughter for the killing of Becky Watts in 2015; and the al-Qaeda fanatic Roshonara Choudhry, who stabbed Labour MP Stephen Timms in 2010.Meanwhile, Low Newton, a maximum security prison, has housed female killers Joanna Dennehy, Rose West, Bernadette McNeilly, and the mother of tragic tot Baby P, Tracey
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