The child killer has been treated well in prison, it is reported (Picture: PA)
Lucy Letby is said to have had a Christmas makeover – despite being found guilty of murdering seven babies and harming six more.
Britain’s most notorious child killer has reportedly been given a new hair do and is allowed to watch Christmas films in her single prison cell.
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 – andhas allegedly dyed her hair brown, as she looks ‘unrecognisable’.
Letby is understood to have recently moved from the notoriously tough Low Newton jail in County Durham to the private women’s HMP Bronzefield in Ashford, Surrey.
A source previously 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. She is with prisoners who have earned more rights to watch TV, spend their cash and have visits.
The child killer has been allowed to dye her hair brown (Picture: PA)
She’s also enjoyed luxuries of television (Picture: PA)
‘It is a disgrace and it’s no wonder she’s been looking so happy.’
A spokesperson for Bronzefield, where she is currently being held, said they ‘cannot comment on individual cases’.
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.
Lucy Letby went to trial in October 2022, accused of killing seven babies and trying to kill 10 others.
The trial went on for almost eight months – in part because of the sheer amount of complex medical evidence the jury needed to consider.
Jurors heard she often waited for parents or nurses to leave the babies’ cot side before attacking them – either by injecting air into their bloodstreams or feeding tubes, poisoning them with insulin, overfeeding them milk or shoving hard plastic medical tubes down their throats.
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Addressing the empty dock, the judge said: ‘Some of your victims were only a day or a few days old. All were extremely vulnerable.
‘The great majority of your victims suffered acute pain as a result of what you did to them. They all fought for survival. Some sadly struggled in vain and died.
‘You used a number of different ways to try to kill them, thereby misleading clinicians into believing collapses had, or may have had, a natural cause or were a consequence of the developing medical conditions.
‘You took opportunities to harm babies when staff were on breaks or away from babies. On some occasions you falsified records to indicate there were signs of a deterioration before a collapse occurred.
‘You knew the last thing anyone working on the unit would or did think was that someone caring for the babies was deliberately harming them.’
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Letby is understood to have recently been moved from a notoriously tough jail.