Lucy Letby, the former British nurse who was sentenced in August this year after being found guilty of killing seven newborns in a neo-natal facility, has been transferred to a luxurious private prison with 24-hour security. Letby, according to The Sun, has her cell complete with a shower, desk, phone, and television. According to the site, she is being treated with ‘baby gloves’ because of her prominence. The 33-year-old is serving a life sentence for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six others. According to The Sun, the pampering she is receiving, despite the crimes she has committed, is aggravating fellow inmates.
According to the report, she has been transferred from the notoriously harsh Low Newton jail in County Durham to the posh HMP Bronzefield in Ashford, Surrey. “As Larry, Letby appears to be content. She’s in a wonderful cell, all by herself. “Because it’s privately run, the facilities at Bronzefield are much nicer than most jails,” a source told The Sun. “She is with inmates who have won the right to watch TV, spend money, and have visitors. It’s a disgrace, and it’s no surprise she’s been smiling,” the person continued. Meanwhile, a Bronzefield spokeswoman stated, “We can’t comment on individual cases.”
Letby qualified to work on intensive care newborns in 2015, which would have allowed her to work with the unit’s sickest babies
Among the items found during a search of Letby’s home was a Post-it note on which she wrote: “I don’t deserve to live. I killed them on purpose because I’m not good enough to care for them”. “I am evil I did this,” she wrote in capital letters. Letby is just the fourth woman in UK history to get a life sentence, which means she will die in prison. Letby, who is originally from Hereford in western England, went to the University of Chester to study nursing.
She graduated in 2011 and began working full-time at Countess of Chester Hospital the following year, where she joined the neo-natal unit. Letby qualified to work on intensive care newborns in 2015, which would have allowed her to work with the unit’s sickest babies. Between June 2015 and June 2016, Letby was accused of harming 17 babies, some of whom were just days old. Prosecutors believe she injected them with air in the majority of cases, although prosecutors also accused her of introducing insulin or too much milk.