Baby killer Lucy Letby moved to ‘cushy’ jail with en-suite, TV and phone | UK News

It has been three months since Lucy Letby was sentenced to life in prison for murdering seven babies.

But now she’s living a life of comfort behind bars with access to her own private en-suite bathroom, TV, phone and desk.

The 33-year-old, who was also convicted for the attempted murder of six other young children, is locked up in a privately-run jail with 24-hour protection.

She has a cell all to herself, has been able to dye her hair brown and hasn’t even got a prison job yet.

Her relatively pleasant treatment – despite the heinous crimes she’s committed – is said to be infuriating fellow inmates, who have earned rights to watch TV, spend money and have visits.

Letby is understood to have recently moved from the notoriously tough Low Newton jail in County Durham to the private HMP Bronzefield in Ashford, Surrey. 

Since her arrival, the cushy life she’s being allowed to lead has not gone down well.

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 it’s privately run.

‘It is a disgrace and it’s no wonder she’s been looking so happy.

‘She seems to be being treated with kid gloves because of who she is.’

The serial killer became only the fourth woman ever in the UK to be handed a whole life tariff when she was sentenced in August this year, meaning she will die in jail.

A Bronzefield spokesman said: ‘We can’t comment on individual cases.’

Letby, 33, targeted vulnerable infants while working on the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.

She used various methods of attack, including injecting them with air to cause a fatal embolism, overfeeding milk, interfering with breathing tubes, or physically assaulting them.

Jurors at Manchester Crown Court heard the seven babies who died would all have been well enough to go home had they not been attacked by Letby.

In one final insult to her grieving victims’ families, Letby refused to attend her sentencing hearing to face them.

New laws are now being introduced to force criminals to face sentencing and stop killers taking the ‘coward’s way out’.

The hospital where she worked is facing a corporate manslaughter investigation, while Letby will also face a retrial on one charge of attempting to murder a baby girl. 

A trial date for that case has been provisionally set for June 2024.

She also launched a bid to appeal her convictions.

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