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Depraved serial killer Levi Bellfield had sex with a prison officer at a high-security prison that holds some of the country’s most dangerous criminals, a book has revealed.

Milly Dowler’s killer confessed all to a pen pal about the woman, who also slept with other serious criminals in HMP Wakefield, known as the ‘Monster Mansion’.

The prison also housed Soham child murderer Ian Huntley, Britain’s most prolific serial killer Harold Shipman and Charles Bronson, the country’s longest serving prisoner.

The book features the history and inmates of the notorious prison and was written following interviews with prison staff, experts, journalists, former inmates and pen pals, including an unnamed woman who wrote to Bellfield and others behind bars.

Bellfield, 56, is serving two life sentences for the murders of Milly, 13, Marsha McDonnell, 19, and Amelie Delagrange, 22, as well as for the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy.

His friend said: “(In Wakefield) they have got away with more things because there are not enough staff and very long corridors.

“A woman had sex with several inmates, including Levi, but then settled with one and was caught and fired.”

“Dr Death” Shipman acted as a general practitioner for fellow inmates despite his previous

The Ministry of Justice denies it, it supports itself. In January 2000, Shipman was found guilty of killing 15 of his patients by lethal injection in Hyde, Greater Manchester, but his actual number is estimated to be around 250.

In 2004, the Ministry of Justice insisted that reviews found he had never given medical advice to other prisoners.

But former prison officer Martin Baker told authors Jonathan Levi and Emma French that he interacted with Shipman’s “new patients” in the prison gym, who often told him “Harold Shipman says I’ve got so-and-so! “.

Shipman used a 15-minute window between prison checks to use bed sheets to hang himself in January 2004.

A 2005 review concluded that staff could not have predicted or prevented his death or known that he had killed himself before he turned 60 so that his wife would receive his full pension. But the book reveals claims that Shipman told at least one prison officer and one probation officer about his plan to kill himself for that reason as well.

Soham child killer Ian Huntley has made three attempts to take his own life and huge sums of money have been allocated to stop him.

Former prison officer Pete Wightman said: “Dave Thompson, the governor at the time, was told that if Huntley killed himself at Wakefield he would lose his job.”

Remarkably, 6ft 3in Colin Ireland, who killed five men in 1993, was described as a “gentle giant” by a former prisoner.

He would make mean jokes, including that he and “black cab rapist” John Worboys would soon be released so he could go on another killing spree with the latter as the driver. Ireland died in 2012.

Roy Whiting, who kidnapped and killed eight-year-old Sarah Payne in July 2000, is so despised, even in the Monster Mansion, that he will probably be killed in prison.

Meanwhile, former Lost Prophets singer and pedophile Ian Watkins has been forced to pay thousands of pounds for protection from gangsters also based in Wakefield because of the number of planned attacks on him, it has been claimed. ? IN WAKEFIELD PRISON: Life

  • Behind Bars in the Monster Mansion, by Jonathan Levi and Emma French, published by John Blake, is out on Thursday.

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