Lucy Letby and child killer pal enjoy private use of prison salon and café

Daily Record

27-07-2025

Furious female lags at the 550-strong HMP Bronzefield are angry that the creepy child killer best pals are "swanning around like they own the place".
Lucy Letby and Beinash Batool are causing fury inside prison by getting areas "they want to visit" closed off to other inmates, according to reports.
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Furious female lags at the 550-strong HMP Bronzefield are angry that the creepy child killer best pals are "swanning around like they own the place". As reported by the Mirror, the pair have been getting special private visits to the hair and nail salon, and the prisoner officers' café, over fears they will be attacked by other women serving time.
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Letby, who worked as a neo-natal nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital, is facing 15 whole life sentences for murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven more. She is caged with the country's most dangerous female prisoners and has become best mates with Batool, who tortured her step daughter Sara Sharif to death.
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Speaking to our sister title from Houseblock Four where the female murderers are locked up, a source has said the other women are fed up with Letby and Batool getting special treatment.
She says the government's Incentives and Earned Privileges Scheme which is designed to encourage good behaviour among prisoners, is being used by Letby who manipulates prison officers to get what she wants.
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"She turns on the tears at the drop of a hat, she gets all her visits in the family room which is really lovely even though she doesn't have children, it's meant to be for children and they've made it really nice. Her parents come to see her," our source said.
"She walks around like she's Queen Bee, she stops other enhanced prisoners going to the library because she says 'I'm scared, I'm scared, I don't know what they'll do to me' but what about other people who are enhanced and want to use that library, they can't.
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"When she and Beinash go to the salon, the whole salon has to be shut down, because they are scared that other prisoners will attack them and obviously there are scissors and stuff there.
"They go at least once a month, she's always getting her nails done and always getting her hair done, Beinash is always up there with her. This place is like an upside down world."
Letby and Batool have also been awarded "positive behaviour comments" by prison officers as part of the IEP scheme which means they get extra perks like visiting the prison staff restaurant, Vita Nova.
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Vita Nova is a posh cafe run by two qualified chefs, where prisoners can learn restaurant skills and Sodexo, the private company that runs HMP Bronzefield, says it trains inmates in barista and knife skills as well as food hygiene and allergy awareness.
Sodexo boasts on its website that at Vita Nova, "in addition to serving staff meals daily, the restaurant team caters special functions too, producing buffet food for high profile guests".
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Enhanced prisoners can earn perks so they can visit the heavily-subsidised cafe and be treated like customers in the real world, but because of the high risk of attack, if Letby attends it is closed to any other visitors.
She chooses to take Batool as her guest with the pair showing off that they've been out for a slap-up meal together, before returning to play cards or stuff their faces with sweets and chocolate from their "canteen".
Our source said: "There is so much hatred for her, she's treated like a princess and she's treated like she's Queen Bee.
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"She was in Vita Nova last week. She managed to get positive comments from these officers, which is so wrong on every level. If you get positive comments then you can go to Vita Nova, which is a really nice cafe they've got, like a training restaurant for prisoners.
"She was up there with her earned privileges and the prisoners are just furious about it. She goes with Beinash, she sucked up to the officers and got positive comments too.
"It's like a really privilege thing to go, it's where all the officers go. It's hugely subsidised. They collect their little Brownie points and go up there. Lucy had a full veggie breakfast and Beinash had some sort of breakfast thing and posh cakes.
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"They're just flaunting it, they are letting other prisoners know and it's really p*****g people off because when they are in those places like the chapel, the salon or Vita Nova no-one else can use it. It's just really sick.
"Why are they even allowed out of their cells, why are they allowed to go there and have it all closed off. If they want to protect them put them in segregation, where they will be completely on their own. They won't be attacked then."
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It was revealed Earlier this month that Letby could face new charges after police sent a further file of evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service relating to baby deaths and collapses at other hospitals where she worked. The allegations are now being considered by lawyers at the CPS.
The number and exact nature of the potential new offences has not been made public yet and it could take weeks before a decision is made on whether to charge Letby with more offences.
A spokeswoman for Cheshire Police said: "We can confirm that Cheshire Constabulary has submitted a full file of evidence to the CPS for charging advice regarding the ongoing investigation into deaths and non-fatal collapses of babies at the neo-natal units of both the Countess of Chester Hospital and the Liverpool Women's Hospital as part of Operation Hummingbird."
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In a statement, a CPS spokesman said: "We can confirm that we have received a full file of evidence from Cheshire Constabulary asking us to consider further allegations in relation to deaths and non-fatal collapses of babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital and Liverpool Women's Hospital.
"We will now carefully consider the evidence to determine whether any further criminal charges should be brought. As always, we will make that decision independently, based on the evidence and in line with our legal test."
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In the meantime, Letby's own legal team, led by barrister Mark McDonald, submitted evidence from a panel of international experts to the Criminal Cases Review Commission in April this year, in a bid to have her convictions overturned.
The CCRC examines miscarriages of justice. Letby's team of 14 world-renowned experts claim no murders took place, but assert that the babies died or collapsed due to natural causes or poor care.
A spokeswoman for Sodexo, the private firm that runs HMP Bronzefield told the Mirror they do not comment on individual prisoners.