Baby P’s monster mum Tracey Connelly ‘ogles female lags in jail gym as she tries to sweat off her bulk’
BABY P mum Tracey Connelly “ogles at other women in the gym” as she tries to shed some of her 18 stone bulk.
The monster, who has just been told she must spend at least another two years behind bars, is now a regular at the jail’s health suite.
She is desperate to lose some weight after years of inactivity in prison and gorging on sweets and crisps in her cell.
And now she works out three times a week at top security Low Newton prison in County Durham.
But a source revealed: “She doesn’t really do anything. She goes on the treadmill for a bit but really just spends an hour staring at the other women in the gym.
“It’s really creepy to see her and everyone just gives her a wide birth. She’s well known for trying to target women but she is a vile and most women stay well away.”
Connelly had struck up a close relationship with House of Horrors killer Rose West before the 65-year-old’s switch to New Hall prison in Yorkshire.
Last week 37-year-old Connelly was turned down for freedom and told she must spend at least another two years in prison.
Warders at Low Newton jail in County Durham have been making extra checks on her to ensure her well being.
It was the third time she’d been refused parole since being recalled to prison following her initial release in 2013.
Inmates can only appear before the Parole Board every two years.
Baby P mum Connelly, 38, gave evidence in person and offered to undergo any kind of restrictions on her liberty including a lie detector test, electronic tag and strict curfew in return for being released.
But the Parole Board deemed her such a continued risk to the public that they ruled she was not even fit to be transferred to an open prison with a more relaxed regime.
Parole Board’s decision not to release Connelly read: “After considering the circumstances of her offending, the progress made while in custody and the evidence presented at the hearing, the panel’s view was that Ms Connelly was not suitable for release.
“Furthermore, the panel did not recommend to the Secretary of State that Ms Connelly should be transferred to an open prison.
“Given that a key intervention remained to be completed, the panel considered that Ms Connelly was appropriately located in closed conditions where remaining levels of risk should be addressed
“The benefits of a move to open conditions at this time were considered to be limited and to be outweighed by the remaining risks that Ms Connelly represents.
“She will be eligible for another parole review in due course.”
In May 2009, Connelly was ordered to be held indefinitely, with a minimum jail term of five years, until ‘deemed no longer to be a risk to the public and in particular to small children’ after the death of son Peter – known as Baby P.
She was freed in 2013 but was jailed again in 2015 after breaking the terms of her indefinite sentence by flogging porn pics of herself to ghouls and spent time at HMP Styal in Cheshire before being moved to the north east of England.
Connelly’s toddler son Peter died after suffering more than 50 injuries at the hands of her partner Steven Barker and his paedophile brother Jason Owen over an eight-month period at a flat in London.
When she was originally freed she begged for an anonymity order and police protection but was refused.
The horrific nature of tragic Peter’s death – despite being on Haringey Council’s at-risk register – shocked Britain.
He was found dead in his blood-stained cot at his mother’s flat after 60 visits from social workers and police.
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At their 2008 trial, Owen and Barker were found guilty of ‘causing or allowing the death of a child’ while Connelly had pleaded guilty to the charge.
Barker was jailed for 12 years for the Baby P case and a life sentence for raping a two-year-old girl.
Owen was also jailed indefinitely and ordered to serve three years minimum.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: “We don’t comment on individual prisoners.”