Inside baby killer Constance Marten's 'new life' inside notorious prison dubbed 'female monster mansion' as fellow lags reveal she 'might be wise to pal up with Lucy Letby for protection'

Daily Mail​

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Baby killer Constance Marten has been told to befriend Lucy Letby 'for protection' as she faces life behind bars inside a notorious prison dubbed the 'female monster mansion'.
The socialite is locked up at Surrey's HMP Bronzefield where she previously whinged in a prison magazine about her treatment.
The runaway aristocrat, 38, had already reportedly become close to Sara Sharif 's killer stepmother Beinash Batool during her murder trial.
Batool has already struck up a friendship with killer nurse Letby where the pair play Uno together and make cheese toasties together in the kitchen.
Violence is said to be rife on the ward with child killers a target among other inmates.
A source told The Sun: 'Letby and Batool have become friends, and that is partly for their own protection, because child killers are a target for all the women there.
'Marten comes out in the same group as Letby and Batool. She is not yet friendly with them and mostly keeps herself to herself.
They added: 'It might be wise for Marten to try to pal up with Letby and Batool, otherwise her time at Bronzefield could become extremely tough.'
Marten and her lover Mark Gordon were convicted last month of killing their baby.
The couple shook their heads in the dock of the Old Bailey as they were found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence of their daughter Victoria after going on the run to stop her being taken into care.
In an extraordinary case which gripped the country, the couple went on the run with their baby in a 'desperately selfish' bid to prevent her being taken into care after their four previous children were removed by social workers, who feared they would come to harm.
Scotland Yard launched a nationwide manhunt, spending more than £1.2million chasing the couple around the country after discovering a placenta in their car when the vehicle was ablaze on a motorway in Greater Manchester on January 5, 2023.
More than 100 officers pursued the couple as they fled in taxis, travelling hundreds of miles across the country from Bolton to Liverpool, then to Harwich in Essex, and on to East London before finally resorting to camping on the South Downs in the freezing cold.
A day later, when Victoria died in their flimsy freezing tent, Marten and Gordon, 50, dumped their baby in a soiled nappy inside a Lidl bag for life.
There is equally grisly company for Marten inside HMP Bronzefield, which also houses Sian Hedges, locked up for life last year for killing her 18-month-old son Alfie Phillips.
Former prison officer Linda de Sousa Abreu, disgraced for having sex with an inmate, was also locked up there before her release last month.
When Batool was jailed last year for life with a minimum of 33 years for the murder of little Sara, the girl's father Urfan Sharif was also locked up for life and will serve at least 40 years.
Sara's uncle Faisal Malik was also imprisoned for 16 years minimum for causing or allowing the death of a child.
The young girl suffered more than 70 fresh injuries and 25 fractures after her father and stepmother battered her to death at their home in Woking, Surrey - before fleeing to Pakistan.
Meanwhile, Marten, who is from an aristocratic family, had previously made headlines within jail when she featured as the cover model for a magazine selling itself as 'for women with conviction'.
Appearing on the cover of The View, Marten wore a glamorous dress and earrings in a shot said to have been taken at least 10 years ago.
In an article written during her retrial, Marten set out some of her objections about prison life, becoming a notorious irritant for staff at the prison due to her constant complaints about jail conditions.
In a bid to sway jurors midway through her prosecution, Marten's magazine interview was titled 'Surviving Serco', in which she claimed her trial was 'prejudiced' by the 'inhumane' conditions she endured behind bars.
In an accompanying podcast which proclaimed, 'this is the very foundation of a fair trial being undermined', Marten bemoaned the long journeys to court in transport provided by private contractor Serco and 'disgusting' microwave meals in her 'stone-cold' Old Bailey cell.
Letby (pictured) was given 15 life sentences after being found guilty of the murder of seven babies and attempting to murder another eight whilst she worked at the Countess of Chester Hospital. One of her fellow inmates revealed in February that the killer was struggling with life behind bars
'I'm being made to survive these 17 to 19-hour days with little or no rest, no food,' she said.
Marten also breached a High Court anonymity order by providing photographs to the magazine, risking prosecution for contempt of court.
It was one of the many extraordinary attempts she and her partner Gordon made to derail a prosecution which has cost taxpayers around £2.8million over two trials across the last two years.
Over that period, the couple conspired to delay, lie and obfuscate, often failing to turn up to court, inventing fictitious ailments and disregarding the judge's orders, shouting across him and chatting in the dock as the evidence was outlined.
As a consequence, their first trial last year was scheduled to last six weeks but ended up taking six months – and concluded with jurors unable to agree verdicts.
Then their retrial overran by more than a month as the pair continued to manipulate proceedings.
Letby was given 15 life sentences after being found guilty of the murder of seven babies and attempting to murder another eight whilst she worked at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
One of her fellow inmates revealed in February that the killer was struggling with life behind bars.
The insider, who lives with Letby in Houseblock Four, described her fellow prisoner as 'really weird' and claimed the baby killer was always accompanied by a prison officer for her own protection and to ensure she does not harm other inmates.