Female inmates have been dismayed to witness the mother of Baby P, Tracey Connelly, laughing, joking and bossing them around, during a prison reading group.
Yet one former prisoner, who served time with Connelly, in a North East prison, believes she is untouchable.
When Connelly's son Peter, referred to as Baby P, died after suffering 50 agonising injuries at his home in North London, it was deemed one of the UK's most horrific child cruelty cases.