Evil baby killer, Lucy Letby is set to be caged for life when she is sentenced on Monday.
This week, the 33-year-old, who worked in the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital, was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others at Manchester Crown Court. Prosecutors said Letby was a "calculated opportunist" who used the vulnerabilities of premature and sick babies to camouflage her horrific crimes.
When she is finally sentenced, there is a possibility that Letby will be brought to the North East to serve her time at one of the country's most notorious female prisons, HMP Low Newton in Brasside County Durham. The maximum security prison has housed some of the most evil women in Britain - and Letby could be the latest to enter.
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Here are some of the most well-known female inmates that have been housed at the prison:
Rose West
‘House of Horrors’ killer Rosemary West, was one of the most infamous killers to be housed at the prison.
West was found guilty of ten horrific murders, carried out with her husband, Fred West. For two decades, the couple were the tenants of the 'House of Horrors' who imprisoned, sexually abused and killed young girls, including, most shockingly, their own daughter.
When skeletons were found buried at 25 Cromwell Street, the pair were charged with sexual assault and murder and apprehended in 1994. In November 1995 she was then sentenced to ten life sentences with a whole life order. In 2019, West was moved from HMP Low Newton after another vicious killer, Joanna Dennehy, allegedly threatened to kill her.
Tracey Connelly
The evil killer mother of tragic tot Baby P became notorious when she was jailed in 2009 for causing or allowing the death of her 17-month-old son Peter in Tottenham, north London. Connelly was banged up in County Durham but was released last year.
Upon her release, Connelly was forced to flee a pound shop after she was confronted by angry locals in an undisclosed town who recognised her.
Joanna Dennehy
Joanna Denney brutally murdered three men in 10 days after stabbed them in what is now known as the 'Peterborough ditch murders'. She seriously injured two others in 2013.
Her horrific crimes meant she is one of just three women who have received whole-life terms in the UK. Housemate Lukasz Slaboszewski, 31, was stabbed to death before John Chapman, 56, and 48-year-old Kevin Lee were killed in March 2013.
Kevin Lee was a lover of Dennehy, property developer and landlord. After she murdered Mr Lee she called accomplice, Gary Stretch, then 46, and sang the Britney Spears song Oops, I did It Again. Dog walkers John Rogers and Robin Bereza were seriously injured after being attacked randomly in Hereford in separate incidents by Dennehy.
Sharon Carr
Branded the Devil's Daughter, Carr is one of Britain's youngest female murderers after she stabbed a stranger to death and bragged about it when she was still a child. Carr knifed 18-year-old Katie Rackliff more than 30 times in an unprovoked attack.
Carr - who was just 12 at the time - picked her victim out at random as she saw her walking home from a night out in June 1992. She was locked up in HMP Low Newton `between 2018 and 2019 before being moved on.
Bernadette McNeilly
McNeilly was said to be the leader of a gang that tortured and murdered 16-year-old Suzanne Capper in the early 1990s. Suzanne was held captive then beaten, injected with drugs and subjected to brutal torture over seven days. She was then driven to woods in Stockport where she was doused in petrol and set on fire. She survived long enough to name her attackers.
McNeilly was given a life sentence for the murder in 1993 and served her time at HMP Low Newton before being released in 2015.
