‘We served in Lucy Letby jail – we had donut days however there was depraved draw back’

Lucy Letby is outwardly receiving VIP therapy at HMP Bronzefield.

The serial child killer, 34, reportedly has her personal key to her room. And inside, there’s an ensuite bathe, TV and cellphone. This is in line with a shock report by the Daily Mirror about her “cushy prison life” the place one insider likened it to staying at a resort.

The nurse was given a complete life order final yr with out the potential of parole for murdering seven newborns and attempting to kill six extra – however households of her victims are outraged about how she is spending her sentence.

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One mum or dad mentioned: “We thought they were throwing away the key, and now we find out that she has her own key.”

With this in thoughts, we hear from two former inmates who’ve frolicked on the class A girls’s jail in Surrey to see whether it is actually as soft because it sounds.

They described some advantages – like doughnut Sundays and “royal” therapy for top profile prisoners. But there have been many extra downsides, comparable to dwelling alongside a few of Britain’s most “wicked” girls.

Francesca Fattore

First up now we have Francesca Fattore, 43, who was there for drug offences however stayed on the identical protected wing as paedophiles and child killers.

And she warned concerning the “royal treatment” Letby would get after she was sentenced. Francesca informed us: “She will be treated like royalty.

“All these prisons have a wing for paedophiles and kiddy killers because they would get beaten up on any other wing. Everywhere she goes she will have at least one or two officers with her. She will be taken to her meds, taken to work, she will get treated like royalty.

“She will have protection and in six months or 12 months time, that girl will be sitting there if you go to the library or she could possibly be serving you dinner. But even years on, she will have officers walking around with her.”

Francesca, from Reading, obtained concerned with taking and promoting medication from an early age, however she is now an assistant supervisor on the automobile firm and runs her personal YouTube channel about jail life.

And certainly one of her reminiscences of Bronzefield is ordering dinner by way of an digital pod – however she mentioned the meal sizes had been so small that she wouldn’t even serve them to her four-year-old.

She described the grub as “horrific” and added: “The food was crap, the portion size was crap, you would be very lucky if you got extras.” However, she did say that each Sunday inmates got chocolate doughnuts.

She added: “Everyone who knows me on the outside knows they are my favourites. By the end of the day I would have like eight chocolate doughnuts on a plate. I would probably have five of them and I don’t know how I lost weight in prison, I definitely ate more inside than I do outside.”

HMP Bronzefield opened in 2004 and is the nation’s first purpose-built feminine jail and it as soon as housed Rose West. And Francesca herself had an adjoining cell with “Britain’s most hated mum” Mairead Philpoot who was there for manslaughter.

Philpott was charged for intentionally setting fireplace to her residence the place her six children had been killed – however was launched in 2020 beneath a brand new identify having served half of her 17-year sentence.

Francesca additionally encountered Joanna Dennehy who killed three males and talking about how she saved sane, she mentioned: “I didn’t know about the high risk prisoners before I went and I had never even heard of Joanna Dennehy until I went to prison. My neighbour was the one who killed her kids in the fire too, Mairead.

“That’s because I got moved to an enhanced wing, it was a real privilege to be on there, you had to have behaved and you had your own shower in your room. It was really good.

“You had three wings and there were no bars. So in the main prison each wing had four wings but they all had bar gates so you couldn’t mix with the other wings unless you went outside. But on this one it had three without bars so I lived on A wing and I could walk to B and C.

“I remember being there and the girls were like ‘oh that girl is here for terrorism’ and ‘that old lady used to beat her kids and make them eat dinner off the floor’. Then I was like’ don’t tell me any more’ because I didn’t want to know. This wasn’t who I wanted to be around, I am not that person so I asked not to be told any more.”

However, after a jittery few days of wanting over her shoulder, Francesca then had a change of coronary heart. She mentioned: “I decided I needed to know who those people were.

“I needed to know because then I won’t talk to the people I don’t need to. I would never kick off on the wing because in my head when I went to prison that was it for me, I was going to change so I had to behave.

“I had to take my feelings aside of what you would want to say, what you’d want to do to somebody and just be a better person. When I learned my next door neighbour was that woman (Mairead) you just start thinking, ‘wow I am in with some crazy, evil, nasty people’.

“There was another girl called Lucy Wolfe (a nanny who sexually abused a baby) and it is a lot to absorb and to suddenly be living in these wings and having to see these faces every day. Literally you just have to think that if I am spoken to by then then just don’t speak back or keep it as minimum as possible. You have to switch off (from their crimes) because you have no choice.”

Emily Duff

Last yr it was revealed that Lucy Letby had befriended Shauna Hoare who infamously helped her boyfriend Nathan Matthews suffocate and dismember 16-year-old schoolgirl Becky Watts.

And Emily Duff, who obtained eight years for a drug associated offence, is a former wingmate and colleague of Hoare and he or she spoke to the Daily Star about being inside Letby’s jail.

She remembered having to spend 5 days per week with Hoare as a result of they each did hairdressing and sweetness programs – and he or she sensed one thing chilling about her fellow inmate.

Emily, 32, mentioned: “She was very calm, came across very timid and it was probably difficult to understand that she could have done something like that. But there was something about her that I just wasn’t quite sure of.

“I had this feeling, I don’t know whether it’s because in the back of my head I knew what she had been a part of, but there was an aura she gave off. She could be chatty but not overly and she never got overly friendly with lots of people.”

She added: “I would only talk to her if it was absolutely necessary like if we were in the salon and it was something work related. I would never sit down and find out about who she was as a person having known what she had done.

“I couldn’t really get past that and obviously Becky was such a young girl at the time as well. I think it’s such a savage case. Regardless of what you might be going through as a person, what they did to Becky is completely… you can’t fathom it.”

A supply from the jail informed the Mirror that Letby and Hoare spent “hours playing board games” and having fun with karaoke earlier than the latter was launched on licence.