Child killer Lucy Letby boasts ‘I can be free’ as she says expenses can be quashed
As notorious killer nurse Lucy Letby continues to spend the rest of her life in prison, she is reportedly certain that she will be released and her convictions struck off
Lucy Letby is now boasting that she will be released from prison in just a matter of months(Image: Chester Standard / SWNS)
Child killer Lucy Letby has boasted to inmates she will be released from jail within months. The former nurse has allegedly told fellow lags and prison staff she believes her murder convictions could be overturned this year.
Letby, 35, is serving multiple whole-life sentences for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six others from 2015 to 2016 at the Countess of Chester Hospital. But the Daily Star Sunday has learnt the convicted serial killer believes her case will be re-examined by the courts.
She is understood to have openly discussed her conviction with staff and inmates inside the privately run HMP Bronzefield in Surrey. One source said: “Lucy is very calm and restrained, which is incredible considering she has been convicted for murdering babies.
“But she really feels she will be freed at some time this year. She says it’s up to the court to decide what should happen to her — whether that’s the conviction being quashed completely or face a retrial.
“Not everyone in Bronzefield believes she is innocent but she has now been accepted as just another prisoner. People have warmed to her, when Lucy first arrived she received a lot of abuse.”
According to prison insiders, Letby has found support among a number of inmates, with several said to believe she is innocent. It is also claimed Letby takes encouragement from what she perceives as growing backing outside prison.
Lucy Letby’s barrister has said his team has “hope” that her conviction could be overturned, after a review found no medical evidence that the former neonatal nurse harmed babies. Mark McDonald has said he has 26 separate experts and 1,000 pages of fresh evidence to back up his claim, which he has passed on to the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
In recent months, a small number of medical professionals and commentators have also questioned whether systemic failings within neonatal care were adequately explored during proceedings. Letby was arrested in 2018 and following one of the longest murder trials in British legal history, was convicted in 2023.
It came after jurors heard months of detailed medical evidence and testimony from experts, hospital staff and grieving parents. She was later handed multiple whole-life sentences, meaning she is expected to spend the rest of her life in prison.
Lucy currently remains on high alert for a potential incident in prison after it was revealed by a prison expert that she could “meet a tragic end” in jail. Her supporters are starting to rise in number after it was revealed she was appealing some of her convictions based on poor evidence.
A spokesman for Sodexo which runs HMP Bronzefield said they do not comment on individual prisoners.
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