Murderer in jail for 11 years gets pregnant during day release from prison
Last updated at 4:22 PM on 02nd April 2009
Lisa Healey was just 15 when she was jailed for murdering a 71-year-old widow in Lancashire in 1998
A woman jailed for life for the brutal murder of a pensioner has become pregnant during day release from an open prison.
Lisa Healey is expected to give birth in the next few days after secret *** sessions with her boyfriend.
The 26-year-old, who has served 11 years of her sentence, will bring her child up in a mother-and-baby unit of Askham Grange Prison near York.
Tory MP David Davies branded the decision to give her day release 'outrageous'.
A prison source said staff at the jail were 'gobsmacked' when they learned Healey was pregnant.
He said: 'It is an astonishing state of affairs.
'This is not a disciplinary matter, but you do not expect a woman to get pregnant while serving a jail sentence.'
Healey was 15 when she and her 14-year-old friend Sarah Davey killed widow Lily Lilley in Failsworth, near Oldham, Lancs in 1998.
The girls, who had run away from home, befriended the lonely 71-year-old woman near her terraced home and after being invited in for a cup of tea turned her last hours into a living hell.
In what the judge described as 'an act of unspeakable cruelty' they taunted her, squirted her with shampoo and cut her legs with a long bladed knife.
After choking her to death with a gag tied so tightly her false teeth were driven down her throat, the girls crammed her body into a bin half full of rubbish, and threw in a framed photograph of her son as a baby along with her birth certificate.
Laughing and giggling, they trundled the bin through the streets and pushed it into a canal.
The girls used their victim's house as their own, inviting local children in and using her pension money to buy crisps and chocolate.
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Lily Lille befriended Healey and her friend Sarah Davey, 14, who made her last hours 'a living hell'
They were finally caught, four days after moving in, when neighbours worried at seeing the door open and no sign of Mrs Lilley alerted police.
Mrs Lilley, a former factory worker, had supported her disabled husband Jack until his death in 1978.
Her only son lived in Australia, and her main company were children she befriended.
Detective Superintendent Roy Rainford, who led the investigation into her murder, described it as a 'calculatedly wicked attack on a vulnerable and defenceless old lady'.
Askham Grange is an open prison which allows inmates nearing the end of their sentences day release in an attempt to find work, re-establish family ties and reintegrate into the community.
Healey is expected to be released around the New Year.
Mr Davies, MP for Monmouth, said: 'She should not have been allowed out on jaunts. Jails are turning into holiday camps.'
The Prison Service declined to comment on Healey’s case, but a spokesman said: 'All those located in open conditions have been risk assessed and categorised as being of low risk to the public.
'The Prison Service provides Mother and Baby Units for the benefit of the prisoners' babies who would otherwise have to be separated from their mothers.
'The primary consideration is the best interest of the children.'
Murderer in jail for 11 years gets pregnant during day release from prison.
I didn't realise the girl is due for release next year...so I suppose they will allow her to keep the baby in the prison until she leaves...
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