‘I’m in prison with Lucy Letby – she moans her life is wasting away’

Convicted baby killer Lucy Letby has been heard moaning to fellow inmates that she wasting the “prime of her life” in prison as she insists on her innocence.

Considered by the state to be among the worst serial killers in British history, Letby, 35, is serving 15 whole-life orders for the slaughter of seven babies and attempted murder of seven more in a year-long reign of terror.

The mass murderer is set to die behind bars after she was convicted at Manchester Crown Court and sent to HMP Bronzefield Prison -the country’s first purpose-built female prison.

Despite brutally murdering and harming babies by injecting air into their bloodstreams and poisoning them with insulin the former neonatal nurse spends her time moaning about her own life “wasting away” and doesn’t have hope she will be released, according to a jail insider who asked for their identity to be protected.

The inmate, told The Mirror: “She’s worried about the time this is all taking, the last trial was one year long, with zero defence experts, but now they are going to have these 14 people, how long is the trial going to be, what court is going to be able to manage a year-long trial.

“Meanwhile, she’s 35 years old, she’s in the prime of her life and her life is wasting away.”

The inmate also revealed that Letby has struck up a prison friendship with the evil killer stepmother of Sara Sharif.

Notorious child killer Beinash Batool and Letby often play cards and chat together, the child killers are on the same secure wing where they are held for their own protection.

And it seems their bond has only grown stronger, the prison insider said: “She’s best friends with that Beinash.”

Letby has already lost two attempts to appeal against her convictions. In May last year the court of appeal dismissed Letby’s case on all grounds and rejected her argument that expert prosecution evidence was flawed. 

In a fresh twist her case will now be reviewed by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which investigates potential miscarriages of justice, after Letby’s lawyers made an application to the body on Monday.

Letby’s new barrister, Mark McDonald, told The Guardian that “the case is now so strong that I could not see any reason why the CCRC shouldn’t be immediately referring this back to the court of appeal”. He believes that Letby’s convictions should be referred by the summer at the latest.