Overview
- The account, published in The Sun and picked up by regional outlets, is based on the former inmate’s testimony and has not been confirmed by prison officials.
- Stephanie, 28, says she served her final three weeks in late 2024 on New Hall’s Rivendell unit, where West introduced herself under the name Jennifer Jones.
- She reports that West keeps a tidy cell with DVDs, watches David Attenborough programmes, sews, and swaps cornflakes for porridge with other prisoners.
- In their final conversation, Stephanie quotes West as warning her to avoid a life in prison and to go to the police if she encounters someone dangerous.
- Stephanie says West was moved to Rivendell after threats from Joanna Dennehy, a claim not independently verified, and notes West remains on a whole-life sentence imposed in 1995.