Killer nurse Lucy Letby is 'pals with notorious paedo' on prison's 'VIP wing'

Killer nurse Lucy Letby has made friends with a notorious paedophile in her women’s prison, sources say.

Letby, 35, is said to be rubbing shoulders with Sally Dixon on the segregation unit of HMP Bronzefield in Surrey. The transgender woman is serving 20 years for a series of sex attacks on seven children while still living as a man.

Dixon, formerly known as John, was recently moved to the unit for protected prisoners after threats from inmates. A source said: “Letby isn’t fussy about who she socialises with. Dixon is relatively new to what is known as the VIP wing but fits right in with all the oddballs.

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“Prison bosses had to move Dixon away from the other inmates because they are all quite rightly repulsed by living cheek-by-jowl with a formerly male paedophile. Letby seems to be quite accepting and the two are on good terms.”

The wing is mainly home to baby killers and lifers. It has previously been reported that Letby is good friends with Beinash Batool, 30, who was jailed for 33 years last December for killing her 10-year-old stepdaughter Sara Sharif in Woking.

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Sally Dixon, 62, a former DJ from Havant, Hampshire, was jailed for 20 years at Lewes crown court in 2022 after being found guilty of 30 indecent assaults on five girls and two boys aged six to 15. The attacks were carried out between 1989 and 1996 before she transitioned to a woman in 2004 but only came to light in 2019.

She had to be moved shortly after sentence after reportedly starting a relationship with a vulnerable woman. Despite being in a women’s prison, Dixon is not believed to have a gender recognition certificate, a legal document granted after someone has had a medical examination and lived as a woman for at least two years.

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Letby is serving 15 whole-life orders after murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others, with two attempts on one of her victims, between June 2015 and June 2016.

Letby, from Hereford, lost two bids last year to challenge her convictions at the Court of Appeal, in May for seven murders and seven attempted murders, and in October for the attempted murder of a baby girl which she was convicted of by a different jury at a retrial.