Inside Lucy Letby's prison life of 'sex favours for drugs and screams all night'
14.09.2023 - 18:49
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
The prison where Lucy Letby is thought to be serving her life sentence has been home to a number of deadly women. It has not been confirmed where Letby has been sent for her life-long sentence.
But it's understood the 33-year-old will have started her sentence in either HMP Bronzefield, in Surrey, or HMP Low Newton, in Durham. She already spent time at Bronzefield, which is the largest women's prison in Europe, while on remand over her crimes.
Rose West spent time at Bronzefield, and current inmates include Shauna Hoare and Roshonara Choudhry. Hoare was found guilty of manslaughter for the killing of Becky Watts in 2015.
Al-Qaeda fanatic Choudhry stabbed Labour MP Stephen Timms in 2010. Low Newton, a maximum security prison, has also housed female killers, The Mirror reports.
Joanna Dennehy, Rose West, Bernadette McNeilly, and the mother of tragic tot Baby P, Tracey Connelly, have all called Low Newton home during their sentences.
Sophie Campell, a former Bronzefield inmate, said her time at the women's prison was so disturbing she wrote a book about it, Breakfast At Bronzefield, which was released in 2020.
She was convicted for a serious assault on a police officer and said violence and bribery is commonplace within the prison. In the book she said she saw "same-sex relationships thriving in Bronzefield".
She added: "Some female prisoners were engaging in sexual favours with the officers to get drugs or food, and that was a real shock for me. It's so horrible how normalised it is, often gossiped and giggled about.
"Violence is everywhere. It puts you on edge. You have to be alert as a situation can escalate rapidly. That's why you learn to adopt a new code of conduct inside."
She also witnessed a boiling hot water attack