Evil nurse Lucy Letby and Sara Sharif‘s killer stepmother are pals and spend hours playing Uno together behind bars, it has been reported.
The child killers are said to while away the hours in their comfortable cells at Surrey’s HMP Bronzefield with endless rounds of the popular card game.
Letby, 35, is serving life for murdering seven infants and trying to kill seven others while working as a neonatal nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
Meanwhile, Beinash Batool, 31, has been locked up for life with a minimum of 33 years for murdering her 10-year-old stepdaughter Sara Sharif.
She joined Letby behind bars in December last year, after the former nurse was jailed in August 2023, with both held on Unit 4 of the 527-inmate prison.
It has been claimed the heinous pair also spend much of their days in each other’s cells as well as in the kitchen, making cheese toasties and chatting.
But it is their taste for Uno – where users play snap with coloured cards, shouting ‘Uno’ when they have one left – which has even inmates at Europe’s largest female prison deeply unsettled, it has been reported.
A source told The Sun the pair have allegedly become tight: ‘It’s a grim spectacle. They spend ages at the table playing and get really into it.
Evil nurse Lucy Letby (pictured) and Sara Sharif ‘s killer stepmother ‘are pals and spend hours playing Uno together behind bars’, it has been reported
Beinash Batool (pictured), 31, has been locked up for life with a minimum of 33 years for murdering her ten-year-old stepdaughter Sara Sharif
The child killers allegedly while away the hours in their comfortable cells at Surrey’s HMP Bronzefield with endless rounds of the popular card game (pictured, file photo)
‘People are angry, but staff have to do what they can to keep prisoners happy.’
They both have enhanced prisoner status, it has been claimed, the most advanced tier of an incentives scheme for inmates, denoting the best behaviour behind bars.
Such prisoners are afforded more privileges, like wearing their own clothes, more visits, more money or a TV in their cell.
The source said Batool and Letby’s alleged enhanced status – which the former nurse was fast-tracked to, the Mail has previously reported – sees them enjoy better food and more freedom.
They are at risk of attack by other inmates, they claimed, so the pair are quite closely surveyed by prison staff.
But apart from that, they reported, both their lives will remain pretty comfortable with further good behaviour.
‘The difference between them is that Batool does not discuss her crime, while Letby tells anyone who will listen that’, they alleged.
They also said they both reportedly have jobs at the prison, which is run by private firm Sodexo – Batool works in the library while Letby undertakes cleaning tasks.
They also said they both reportedly have jobs at the prison, which is run by private firm Sodexo – Batool works in the library while Letby (pictured during her arrest) undertakes cleaning tasks
The source said Batool (pictured, left, in a court sketch, with Sara’s father Urfan Sharif, right, and her uncle Faisal Malik, centre) and Letby’s alleged enhanced status sees them enjoy better food and more freedom
Sara (pictured) suffered more than 70 fresh injuries and 25 fractures after her father and stepmother battered her to death at their home in Woking, Surrey
They also both have TVs with Freeview channels, a DVD player and books and films available to order from the library, it was claimed.
Letby reportedly often attends legal meetings to plan for her appeal.
Batool and Letby have equally grisly company on the unit, which also houses Sian Hedges, locked up for life last year for killing her 18-month-old son Alfie Phillips.
Former prison officer Linda de Sousa Abreu, disgraced for having sex with an inmate, was also locked up there before her release last month.
When Batool was jailed last year for the murder of little Sara, the girl’s father Urfan Sharif was also locked up for life and will serve at least 40 years.
Sara’s uncle Faisal Malik was also imprisoned for 16 years minimum for causing or allowing the death of a child.
A pre-inquest review of her death was held today.
The young girl suffered more than 70 fresh injuries and 25 fractures after her father and stepmother battered her to death at their home in Woking, Surrey – before fleeing to Pakistan.
Batool and Letby have equally grisly company on the unit, which also houses Sian Hedges, locked up for life last year for killing her 18-month-old son Alfie Phillips (pictured)
Former prison officer Linda de Sousa Abreu (pictured), disgraced for having sex with an inmate, was also locked up there before her release last month
Mr Justice Cavanagh said in his sentencing remarks: ‘This poor child was battered with great force, again and again…
‘This poor child was battered with great force, again and again.
‘It is no exaggeration to describe the campaign of abuse against Sara as torture.’
She had a fractured collar bone, two fractured shoulder blades, fractured ribs, a fractured humerus, eleven fractures to her spinal column and fractures to both her hands.
Sara also had a ‘serious brain injury’, sustained a few days before her death, and two burn wounds on her bottom, which matched an iron at the house.
In the weeks before she died, she was tied up, covered with a hood, beaten with a cricket bat and metal pole and bitten.
Letby used a variety of horrifying methods to secretly attack 14 babies between 2015 and 2016 on the neonatal ward at the Chester hospital she used to work at.
Doctors at the hospital began to notice a significant rise in the number of babies who died or unexpectedly collapsed on the ward.
When Batool was jailed last year for the murder of little Sara, the girl’s father Urfan Sharif (pictured) was also locked up for life and will serve at least 40 years
Sara’s uncle Faisal Malik (pictured) was also imprisoned for 16 years minimum for causing or allowing the death of a child
They could not find a medical explanation so alerted police, who began investigating.
The former nurse was first arrested in July 2018 and charged in November 2020.
Evidence was presented at court of her methods of attack, which included injecting air and insulin into babies’ bloodstream and infusing air into their gastrointestinal tract.
She also force fed an overdose of milk or fluids and inflicted impact trauma.
Her intention, it was found, was to kill the children – but deceive her colleagues into believing they had died of natural causes.
Pascale Jones of the Crown Prosecution Service has previously said: ‘She perverted her learning and weaponised her craft to inflict harm, grief and death.
‘Time and again, she harmed babies, in an environment which should have been safe for them and their families.
‘Her attacks were a complete betrayal of the trust placed in her.
‘My thoughts are with families of the victims who may never have closure, but who now have answers to questions which had troubled them for years.’
A spokesperson for Sodexo said the firm would not comment on individuals.
