Lucy Letby's life behind bars revealed – from £33-a-week to spend on chocolate & TWICE as many visits as other prisoners
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LUCY Letby's enhanced prisoner status gives her a staggering £33 a week to spend on sweets and chocolate.
The former nurse can also receive twice as many visits as other prisoners, after being fast-tracked from standard status.
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Lucy Letby was convicted of killing seven babies
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The nurse worked at the Countess of Chester Hospital in the North-West
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The nurse reportedly gets to spend £33 on sweet treats in the prison canteen
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Letby was convicted of killing seven babies and for attempting to murder another seven.
She is now imprisoned in unit four of the only purpose-built private prison in the UK - HMP Bronzefield.
Now an enhanced prisoner, Letby is given £33 a week to spend in the prison canteen where regular prisoners are only given £19.80.
Some prisoners are bumped down to basic status as a punishment, which gives them only £5.50 per week.
All prisoners are given status reviews every 28 days, but Letby has retained her enhanced position throughout her time at HMP Bronzefiled.
A source told the MailOnline that the killer nurse was upgraded because of fears that she may be attacked by other inmates.
The source said: 'Lucy is reserved and very quiet, she isn't really a problem with staff.
'It grates with officers though - she's committed the worst crimes possible and here she is on the enhanced unit with all the benefits that come with it.
'Again the real reason she is here is safety, she would be attacked on any other unit.'
Letby reportedly has shared a cell with a former prison officer who was jailed after having sex with an inmate.
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Linda De Sousa Abreu, Letby's cell mate, was fast-tracked to privileged status for her own protection since she is a former guard.
Abreu worked at the famous prison HMP Wandsworth in London.
Letby has been in police custody since November 2020 and was handed a 'whole life order' in August 2023.
The inmate is the fourth woman in British history to be given no hope for parole after committing her string of chilling murders.
Letby has been found to have targeted 17 babies whilst at large between June 2015 and June 2016.
Her first confirmed victim was a boy born in June 2015, who, despite being born prematurely, was described as being "stable".
Letby came on shift at 7.30pm that same day and, by 8.26pm, the boy's condition was "deteriorating rapidly".
He died twenty minutes later after air was deliberately injected into his bloodstream.
That boy's twin sister became ill just 28 hours later after "purple blotches" broke out across her body - symptoms shared with her brother.
Thankfully, that baby survived.
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Some have cast doubt on Lucy Letby's conviction
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However, another two babies died under the nurse's care that same month - one of which ingested air and the other being killed when air was injected into her bloodstream.
More babies - including one in on 4 August and another on October 23 - died from incidents involving air while at Letby's hospital.
Finally, Letby was found to have killed two more babies on June 23 and 24 2016.
The killer nurse was arrested on July 3, 2018, and faced a three-year court battle before finally being jailed for life.
She had been working at the Countess of Chester Hospital while at large.
Despite her conviction, Letby insists that she is innocent and several high profile politicians have called for her case to be re-examined.
Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt said that, although the victim's family must be at the 'forefront' of politician's minds, there is 'doubt on what actually happened'.
He added: 'They are not conspiracy theories dredged up from far-flung reaches of the internet.'
The former health secretary and Tory chancellor said that 14 paediatric specialists ruled that the deaths of the babies had been down to natural causes.
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