Lucy Letby will spend her time behind bars alone after being handed a life sentence, a former felony defence lawyer has advised Express.co.uk.

The neonatal nurse was sentenced in absence on Monday, August 20, after refusing to seem in court docket to face the households of her victims.

Between June 2015 and June 2016, she killed seven infants by way of numerous means, together with injecting air into them, force-feeding them milk and injecting them with insulin. 

She had confronted 22 fees, together with seven of homicide and 15 of tried homicide, however jurors have been unable to agree verdicts on six counts of tried homicide referring to 4 of the infants.

While some have since recommended that the UK's worst little one serial killer in historical past shall be a goal in jail, Dylan Rhys Jones has stated she's going to seemingly spend her days in isolation. 

Mr Rhys Jones, a former felony lawyer who was tasked with defending the sadistic serial killer Peter Moore, stated: "Letby will find herself in a very difficult position when she gets to prison, and the chances are that she will be alone for the most of the time. She will not be a part of the general prison population."

Letby will die in jail after being handed 14 whole-life orders for murdering the seven infants and trying to homicide six others whereas engaged on the Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal ward.

She shall be despatched to HMP Low Newton in Durham, a closed jail for feminine adults and younger offenders.

Closed prisons are safe centres which make use of high-security options to make sure prisoners can not escape.

HMP Low Newton is situated subsequent to HMP Franklin, the Category A grownup male jail whose inmates pose the most important menace to the general public. 

HMP Wakefield is a Category A jail that holds among the nation's most infamous and harmful criminals, together with serial killers and rapists.

Whole life sentences are uncommon in Britain, and even rarer for ladies.

Only three different ladies within the historical past of Britain's justice system have been handed life sentences: Myra Hindley, one-half of the Moors Murderers; Rose West, who aided her husband in killing an unknown variety of ladies; and Joanne Dennehy, who fatally stabbed three males in separate assaults in 2013.

Letby didn't seem in court docket to listen to her sentencing however did face jurors earlier this yr. 

In May, giving proof for the primary time, Letby stated she was "devastated" by the allegations and had been identified with post-traumatic stress dysfunction attributable to her “traumatising” arrest.

"I only ever did my best to care for them. I’m here to help and to care, not to harm," she stated.

Investigators found a diary in Letby's house stuffed with notes concerning the murders she had dedicated. They learn: "I am evil. I did this,’ and "I don’t need to stay," and "I killed them on goal as a result of I’m not ok to take care of them. I'm a horrible evil particular person."