Former NHS neonatal nurse Lucy Letby will spend the rest of her life behind bars as she became the fourth woman in Britain to be handed a whole-life order after being convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others while working at the Countess of Chester hospital between 2015 and 2016.
Experts believe the 33-year-old serial killer will be on suicide watch for a number of months before she's integrated with her fellow inmates at HMP Low Newton, and it's believed she will mostly interact with prison officers "through the hatch in her cell door". In fact, while some prisoners may enjoy certain privileges behind bars such as being granted day releases for important events like family funerals, it's said to be "extremely unlikely" that baby killer Letby will be permitted any sort of day release.
Letby will likely never be granted a day release from prison (Facebook)
It means she won't be permitted to attend her parents' funerals (Facebook)This means that when the time comes, she will not be able to attend the funeral of her parents, Susan and Jonathan Letby, according to chartered security professional James Bore. Speaking to the Mirror, the director of family consultancy Bores said: "Any day release for parents' funerals, or anything else, would be based on a risk assessment. I find it extremely unlikely that any sort of temporary release would be granted - for her own safety as much as anything else. Currently, she's being segregated within Low Newton, again to prevent her from being attacked. Social media rumours saying that she's been attacked already are misinformation."
The news comes after a number of unsubstantiated rumours concerning Letby's first few days at HMP Low Newton began circulating online, with some claiming she had already been subjected to a brutal attack at the hands of her fellow prisoners involving boiled kettle water.
Many of the rumours have been flagged as "false information" on social media platforms, while Full Fact, a team of independent fact-checkers who analysed the posts, explained that it wasn't uncommon for misinformation to spread when it comes to high-profile criminals. Full Fact's report also claims that the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) has confirmed the posts about Letby on Facebook are untrue. When contacted by the Mirror, the MOJ declined to comment.
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The "extremely unlikely" chance of Letby being granted a day release when her parents pass away follows Susan and Jonathan Letby's decision to not attend their killer daughter's sentencing - which the murderer herself also did not attend - despite the fact they had been there for every day of the 10-month trial. They did not hear the heart-wrenching words of parents who had lost their babies at the hands of the 33-year-old, nor did they listen to Mr Justice Goss declare that she would now spend the rest of her life behind bars.
Mr and Mrs Letby appear to have been in complete denial of their daughter's crimes throughout the trial and have been quick to leap to her defence. It was they who she leaned on when she had a key meeting with hospital bosses in January 2017.
The parents went alongside their daughter, six months after she was removed from the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital following the death of two triplet boys, and helped her secure a letter of apology from senior doctors who had raised concerns about their beloved daughter.
Then before her trial began, the couple relocated from Hereford to Manchester in order to be close by. They were seen making loving glances to their daughter as she sat in the dock. The couple complained about the duration, which lasted some ten months, as they had to extend their rent on the flat close to Manchester Crown Court. Their faith in their daughter remains unshakeable, even when the jury convicted her. Mrs Letby's disbelief was laid bare in court when she collapsed sobbing into her husband's arms, at one point shouting: "You can't be serious. This cannot be right."
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