A PRISON inmate has claimed that Keighley child killer Savannah Brockhill is walking around prison with a "big smile on her face" while under the protection of four or five guards.

Brockhill, now 29, was found guilty of murdering 16-month-old Star Hobson in a violent attack at a flat in Wesley Place, Keighley, in September 2020.

The devastating attack on the defenceless Keighley toddler caused catastrophic, unsurvivable abdominal injuries.

The Channel 5 programme, HMP Styal: Women Behind Bars, which aired this week revealed how female prisoners at the Cheshire prison HMP Styal "do not tolerate anybody who murdered young children" and one inmate spoke about Brockhill strutting around prison "with a smile of her face" with a contingent of guards in tow.

On a phone call from the inside the prison, the anonymous prisoner recounted how Styal's inmates reacted to killer Brockhill's arrival, claiming that four or five guards had to protect when she left her cell.

She said: "We've all seen it on the news. We were shocked to see it but then to have the actual person be actually thrown into Styal.

"Everyone was at the windows, everyone was screaming, shouting.

"But luckily enough, we were all locked in at the certain time so no one can get to her."

"But then as time was going she was let out to walk around the jail but she was always with officers guarding her, like four or five officers.

The prisoner added that Brockhill would strut around "with a big grin on her face".

"You don't go and do that to your kid and go walk around the prison with a big smile on your face thinking no one's gonna get you.

"I don't know how she can live with herself knowing that she did that and she's still walking around with a big smile on her face."

Another inmate talked about how a lot of female inmates are still "protective as mums."

She said: "There are a lot of women in there who haven't seen their children or lost their children because of things that had happened and are mixing with women who have killed or raped children.

"It's not good, especially for women because they're so protective as mums."

Star Hobson's mother Frankie Smith, who was 20 at the time of her conviction, was also jailed after being found guilty of causing or allowing the death of her daughter.

 

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