Who has been given a whole life order along with Wayne Couzens?
EVIL Wayne Couzens has become one of just 61 criminals serving a whole life order in the UK.
The severe sentence is the harshest a judge can impose and means they will never be considered for release unless in exceptional circumstances.
Who has been sentenced to a full-life tariff in the UK?
The severe sentence is the harshest a judge can impose and means they will never be considered for release unless in exceptional circumstances.
They can only be issued to those who committed their crimes when they were over the age of 21.
Milly Dowler's killer Levi Bellfield is thought to be the only criminal in UK legal history to be serving two whole life orders – for her murder, the killings of Marsha McDonnell and Amelie Delagrange as well as the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy.
Other notorious criminals currently serving whole life orders include:
- Serial killer Rose West
- Lee Rigby murderer Michael Adebolajo
- Mark Bridger, who murdered five-year-old April Jones in Wales
- Neo-Nazi Thomas Mair who killed MP Jo Cox
- Grindr serial killer Stephen Port
- Reading terror attacker Khairi Saadallah, who murdered three men
Previous monsters who have since died that were given whole life tariffs include Moors murderer Ian Brady and his girlfriend Myra Hindley.
Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, and doctor Harold Shipman – thought to be one of Britain's most prolific serial killers – were also among those serving whole life orders.
However, while whole life orders mean that inmates will by kept incarcerated until death, this doesn't happen in every case.
The Home Secretary may grant release in exceptional circumstances, such as if a prisoner is of a great age or in ill health.
In other instances, the Court of Appeal can also over-turn whole life orders.
Meanwhile, there have previously been calls for more of the tougher sentences to be handed out amid a rise in high profile offences.
A 2019 survey by the Sun of Sunday revealed that the cost of holding inmates to the taxpayer was £43,213 a year, or £118 a day, for every place at our 117 prisons.
Nearly double that money is believed to have been spent on keeping the most serious offenders, such as murderers, terrorists and rapists, under lock and key, with the total cost of caging Britain’s lags at £3.4billion a year.
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