A report by the Scottish Human Rights Commission has raised “serious concerns” over the use of Orders for Lifelong Restriction (OLR) in the Scottish legal system; in Scotland there is no IPP sentence (indeterminate sentence for public protection) but the OLR, say campaigners is the same thing. The group says that people serving life sentences […]
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Prisoners serving whole life orders – which means they may never be released – will now be automatically blocked from getting married or entering a civil partnership after the new Lord Chancellor signed a measure in the Victims and Prisoners Act into law. This will deny the most heinous criminals from enjoying the important life […]
A man will spend the rest of his life in prison after killing a pensioner while released on life licence – after he was jailed for two previous murders. Laurence Bierton has been sentenced to a rare whole-life order at Nottingham Crown Court for murdering 73-year-old Pauline Quinn. Bierton bludgeoned the 73-year-old to death with […]
The serial killer Levi Bellfield is to be allowed to marry after prison officials conceded they could not stop him under existing laws. Bellfield, 55, is serving two whole-life sentences at HMP Frankland in Durham for murders, including that of the schoolgirl Milly Dowler. His application to marry a woman to whom he proposed during […]
UPDATE 16 June 2023 >> Earlier: 17th March 2023 Prisoners serving whole life sentences would be prevented from marrying under new Government plans. It comes amid a bid by Milly Dowler’s killer Levi Bellfield to challenge a decision blocking the serial killer from marrying in prison. Bellfield, 54, is currently serving two whole life sentences […]