Lucy Letby ‘acts like Queen Bee in jail' and ‘gets hair & nails done in salon with killer pal Sara Sharif's step-mum'
The 35-year-old is serving 15 life sentences after being convicted of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven more at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
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Letby is reported to have struck up a bizarre friendship with Beinash Batool, who murdered her 10-year-old stepdaughter Sara Sharif.
The ex-neo natal nurse is said to be chaperoned by prison guards wherever she goes, and special areas have to be cleared whenever she wants to visit - due to the high risk of her being attacked by fellow lags.
The Sun reported last week how the evil pair play card game Uno for hours in their cushy jail unit after being given 'enhanced' privileges at HMP Bronzefield, Surrey.
They also have "a lot of freedom" and can buy foods that others can't - often in the kitchen making cheese toasties together.
Letby allegedly moans she's the "fattest I've ever been" due to her diet of junk food, including chocolate.
Sources have since told The Mirror other female murderers in Houseblock Four are fed up with Letby and Batool - who is serving 33 years - getting special treatment.
They say the government's Incentives and Earned Privileges Scheme, which is designed to encourage good behaviour among prisoners, is being used by Letby who manipulates prison officers to get what she wants.
The source said: "She turns on the tears at the drop of a hat, she gets all her visits in the family room which is really lovely even though she doesn't have children, it's meant to be for children and they've made it really nice. Her parents come to see her," our source said.
"She walks around like she's Queen Bee, she stops other enhanced prisoners going to the library because she says 'I'm scared, I'm scared, I don't know what they'll do to me' but what about other people who are enhanced and want to use that library, they can't.
"When she and Beinash go to the salon, the whole salon has to be shut down, because they are scared that other prisoners will attack them and obviously there are scissors and stuff there."
The source said the pair go to the salon "at least once a month" and Letby is "always getting" her hair and nails done, adding the wing is "like an upside down world".
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Letby and Batool, 31, have also reportedly been awarded "positive behaviour comments" by prison officers as part of the IEP scheme.
This means they get extra perks like visiting the prison staff restaurant, called Vita Nova, which has two qualified chefs, and inmates can be trained barista and knife skills, it's claimed.
And when Letby attends the likes of the salon or Vita Nova, it is closed to others to protect her, but she chooses to take Batool as her plus one guest, according to reports.
One prisoner told The Mirror, there is "so much hatred for her" because she's "treated like she's Queen Bee".
As reported by The Sun previously, the killer nurse works three different prison jobs and blows her wages on sweets and crisps.
Letby has jobs as a laundry worker, earning £8 a week, a kitchen worker - another £8 a week - and a library worker.
Lag sources say she's put on so much weight "you wouldn't recognise her".
Unit 4 of 527-inmate Bronzefield, which is run by private firm Sodexo.
Letby and Batool both have TVs with Freeview channels and a DVD player, along with books and films, which they can order from the library.
Others on the unit include Sian Hedges, jailed for life in 2024 for killing 18-month-old son Alfie Phillips.
Shamed prison officer Linda de Sousa Abreu, who romped with a lag, was also held there until her release last month.
Letby — convicted of the murders of seven babies and attempted murders of seven more while a neonatal nurse — has regular legal meetings as she plans her appeal.
Batool was sentenced last December for the murder of her tortured stepdaughter.
Sara's dad, Urfan Sharif, is serving at least 40 years for murder after she was beaten to death at the couple's home in Woking, Surrey.
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