Lucy Letby's chilling fate in jail as she spends rest of her life as a 'target'

Lucy Letby will spend the rest of her life as a 'target' in jail, a former prison officer has claimed.

The former nurse was told she will die behind bars as she was sentenced earlier this month to an additional whole-life order for the attempted murder of a baby girl. Letby, 34, was found guilty at Manchester Crown Court of the attack on the newborn infant during a night shift in the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit in February 2016.

Last August, she was convicted at the same court of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of six others, with two attempts on one child. She is already serving 14 whole-life orders for each of those offences committed on the unit between June 2015 and June 2016.

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Retired prison governor Vanessa Frake has now spoken to the Mirror about the Letby's situation behind bars, which she said will be just as dangerous as it was when she was first locked up in August 2023. Vanessa, who spent nearly three decades inside jail observing the likes of child killer Beverley Allitt, Moors murderer Myra Hindley and serial killer Rose West, said she expects the former nurse to still be on suicide watch.

She is likely to be continuously monitored by officers and targeted by inmates, she said. She told the Mirror: "I think her regime will be the same after her latest conviction - she'll probably still be on suicide watch, away from the general population of the prison, with other like-minded prisoners.

"Anything Letby wants, with regard to education or leaving the wing, will have to be risk-assessed and all visitors will be scrutinised. They will be keeping an eye on her without a