Evil child killer Lucy Letby has been heard whining to her inmates that she is in the “prime of her life” and that she is wasting away in jail.
The murderer, 35, was given 15 whole life orders after being found guilty of killing seven newborn babies and attempting to kill eight more. Her sickening crimes took place while she worked at the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
Letby is now serving time at HMP Bronzefield, which houses the country’s most dangerous female prisoners. One fellow inmate from Houseblock Four – where Letby may spend the rest of her life – told the Mirror that the multiple murderer doesn’t have hope she will be released.
Despite her convictions in two trials and twice being refused leave to appeal, a team campaigning on Letby’s behalf claim she has suffered a miscarriage of justice and on Tuesday put forward contrasting medical opinions of some of the evidence used in court in a bid to secure a fresh appeal. However, Letby appears unhappy about the conduct of the ongoing campaign.
Despite brutally ending seven innocent and helpless young lives, the former neonatal nurse spends her time whining about her own life “wasting away”.
The jail insider, who asked the Mirror to protect their identity for fear of reprisals, revealed: “She’s worried about the time this is all taking, the last trial was one year long, with zero defence experts, but now they are going to have these 14 people, how long is the trial going to be, what court is going to be able to manage a year-long trial. Meanwhile, she’s 35-years-old, she’s in the prime of her life and her life is wasting away.”
The inmate said that Letby has been working – carrying out tasks for other prisoners at Houseblock Four as part of the jail regime. She makes toast in the morning for everyone at breakfast and does the laundry for all the women on the wing.
The roles appear to bring out contrasts in Letby’s character.
Our insider said: “She is really odd, she’s very weird. She doesn’t come across as very sympathetic, she’s not very friendly, she’s super shy actually, but she will help wherever she can. She’s just odd, she has a weird look, when she thinks someone is looking at her, she’s staring at people.”
The source said that Letby has been unable to walk the corridors of the jail alone and is always accompanied by a prison officer. But as well as being for her own protection, the move is to ensure Letby is unable to harm other inmates.
The insider said: “Lucy has to be accompanied by a guard everywhere she goes, she is considered dangerous and also is vulnerable to other prisoners.”
While she may have problems with other inmates, the killer nurse‘s relationship with another notorious prisoner has grown stronger. It was previously reported that the serial killer had befriended Beinash Batool, who murdered her own step daughter, Sara Sharif.
A court heard the 10-year-old was subjected to “unspeakable” violence for years before she was killed. Batool, 30, was convicted of murdering the little girl along with her husband Urfan Sharif, 43, and both were given life sentences. After she was jailed, Batool struck up a friendship with Letby, with the pair said to enjoy playing cards together.
Now, our prison insider reveals, their bond has grown stronger, saying: “She’s best friends with that Beinash.” A jury spent 22 days and over 96 hours deliberating the charges against Letby in August 2023.
They found her guilty of seven counts of murder and seven counts of attempted murder between 2015 and 2016. She was found not guilty of two counts of attempted murder. Verdicts were not reached on six counts of attempted murder.
She was retried on one count of attempted murder in July 2024 and found guilty. Letby was sentenced to 15 whole-life prison order– meaning she will spend the rest of her behind bars. She lost two bids to challenge her convictions at the Court of Appeal last year.
Meanwhile, in the wake of her convictions, a public inquiry has since been launched and has heard police are investigating other baby deaths linked to the hospital where Letby worked. Amid the Thirlwall Inquiry, it emerged Letby had been questioned under caution in prison by detectives probing deaths and non-fatal collapses at both the Countess of Chester and also at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, where she trained as a student.
On Tuesday, at a press conference led by her barrister Mark McDonald KC, MP David Davis branded Letby’s case “one of major injustices of modern times”. They produced “medical evidence” from 14 neonatal medical experts which they say debunks the medical evidence presented at trial by the prosecution.
Retired medic Dr Shoo Lee, who co-authored a 1989 academic paper on air embolism in babies, presented the findings of a panel who said they had compiled an “impartial evidence-based report”. He went on to give seven examples of how the care of each baby had, he claimed, wrongly been blamed on Letby, when there was “clear evidence” something else “really happened”.
The Criminal Cases Review Commission has said it would assess an application by Letby’s campaign group and determine whether there was new evidence which presented a reasonable chance of a conviction being overturned.
Meanwhile the press conference appears to have garnered some support for Letby among some of her fellow killers and other inmates at Bronzefield. The source said Houseblock Four is made up of three wings with about 50 women on the block, who are all super enhanced prisoners able to watch TV in their own cells. The insider revealed: “Everyone watched the press conference and everyone is still talking about it. She’s been made a massive scapegoat. When she walked in no-one thought she was innocent, they used to be really really nasty. Now I’d say 70% of people believe she’s innocent.”
The insider said Letby’s friendship with Batool had set some inmates against her, saying it “isn’t helping her at all, because everyone knows she’s guilty, guilty, guilty., she added “I do feel it’s different with Lucy, I think Lucy is innocent.” She said Letby had complained about her mental health, adding: “She gets zero mental health support, she’s been begging, begging for mental health support and she’s getting nothing.”
But despite the ongoing campaign, asked if Letby believes she is getting out of prison, the source said: “No, I’ve asked her about that, exactly that, she just says she takes a day at a time, because that’s the only way to get through it. You can’t have hope. I think she has day-at-a-time hope, it’s just enough to get her through, a day at a time.”
A spokeswoman for Sodexo, the private firm that runs HMP Bronzefield told the Mirror they do not comment on individual prisoners.
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