She is likely to share a building with some of the country's most notorious female criminals
Absent from the dock, Lucy Letby was condemned to her entire life behind bars at Manchester Crown Court. The former neonatal nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital had been found guilty of murdering seven babies in her care and attempting to kill six others.
Current inmates include Shauna Hoare, who was found guilty of manslaughter for the killing of Becky Watts in 2015; and the al-Qaeda fanatic Roshonara Choudhry, who stabbed Labour MP Stephen Timms in 2010. Meanwhile, Low Newton, a maximum security prison, has housed female killers Joanna Dennehy, Rose West, Bernadette McNeilly, and the mother of tragic tot Baby P, Tracey Connelly.
She also spoke of witnessing a woman having boiling hot water thrown over her face during her first few weeks, adding: "It rattles you. You know it could be you – say the wrong thing, or look at the wrong person and you could be burned and blistered and never offered medical treatment." "It's not an act, it's not someone kicking off. They would scream from nine at night until six in the morning and you can't do that unless you are mentally ill. Seeing girls coming out having scratched all their own faces up and beating their own faces with flasks."
"It is a lot to absorb and to suddenly be living in these wings and having to see these faces every day. Literally, you just have to think that if I am spoken to by then then just don't speak back or keep it as minimal as possible. You have to switch off because you have no choice." "She'll be what's known as a 'restricted status' prisoner," Mark Leech, a prisons expert and editor of The Prison Oracle website told the Telegraph. "She'll be on suicide watch and it will be some time before she gets to mingle with the main prison population - at least six months."
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