All news on the topic: Life sentence

Igor Kuzmenko, known to be a "sadistic killer gangster" used faked passports and plastic surgery to evade being captured for 17 years. The 'Les' gang member is responsible for over 50 deaths and is awaiting trial

Jermaine Myers, 37, was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in a psychiatric hospital after killing Nicholas Sutin in a brutal attack on his 55th birthday in North London

Britain’s most violent lag laid bare a bucket list of things he plans to do, including a Rolls-Royce ride and a long-distance run posing as a convict handcuffed to an officer

James Foy, 19, and Michael Foy, 22, were both jailed for life for the murder of Michael Rainsford, 20 in Litherland, Merseyside.

Authorities fear the infamy of the case that gripped the nation will make Alex Murdaugh, who brutally killed his wife Maggie and their son Paul, a target for other inmates in Columbia, South Carolina, US

70-year-old Charles Bronson, who is making a bid for freedom after spending 48 years behind bars, has told officials his aggression has been tempered by his love of art

Dad-of-six Saul Murray, 33, was given sedatives after being seduced by Surpreet Dhillon, 36, and Temidayo Awe, 21, before Ikem Affia, 31, and Cleon Brown, 29, killed him

Fans are flocking to Netflix to watch the critically praised three-part documentary series Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal on the day dad Alex Murdaugh was sentenced

Lorraine Thorpe was 15 when she and Paul Clarke tortured and murdered Rosalyn Hunt and her own father ,and was later jailed for life - but she's up for parole later this summer

Government statistics show that between April 2020 and March 2021 that 223 children died in instances where abuse or neglect is known or suspected

Salman Abedi's Muslim preacher friend Mansour Al-Anezi was investigated by the security services before a failed suicide bombing in Exeter in 2008

Maria Pearson, who stabbed her ex-boyfriend's new partner 17 times in 1986, was also denied a move to an open prison having initially been sentenced to a minimum of 11 years behind bars

Bronson is next week due to appear for one of the first parole hearings to be held in public after being jailed for kidnapping Phil Danielson in 1999. His victim says he needs to show real remorse

Shaye Groves stabbed her on-off boyfriend Frankie Fitzgerald to death as he slept and was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life behind bars

Harry Jarvis murdered his wife Carol in 2009 and hid her body just metres away from where his pastry heiress mistress slept in the garden shed

In a victim impact statement Liverpool Crown Court heard how Michael Toohey’s mum begged for paramedics to save her son as he lay lifeless on the floor

BBC's new hit drama The Gold sees Jack Lowden play Kenneth Noye - ex-Det Supt Brown, now 82, was secretly tasked with finding the missing gold and said his only lead was a photo of the six robbers taken months before the historic raid

James Hurley, now 60, who killed off-duty constable Frank Mason in 1988 and then went on the run for 13 years, and Paul Weddle, who stabbed Sgt Bill Forth to death in 1993, are bidding for freedom

Former Matalan store assistant Colleen Campbell, 38, was branded a "f..king witch" by relatives of the victim after her meeting with a psychic inadvertntly implicated her in the murder of her former spouse Thomas

Donald David Dillbeck, 59, is scheduled to die tomorrow, February 23, for the 1990 murder of Faye Vann in Tallahassee, and advocates are preparing to protest the capital punishment in Florida, US

Police searching for Nicola Bulley have reportedly drafted in the help of a top UK detective who's previously helped to crack some major criminal cases.

Retired Detective Superintendent Anthony Nott, who caught wife killer Russell Causley, has warned that the killer is still a psychopath despite now being released

Coronation Street bride-to-be Daisy Midgeley is set to have corrosive liquid hurled on by obsessed stalker Justin, with the hard-hitting storyline being praised by the charity Women's Aid

Penelope Jackson stabbed husband of 24 years David to death in 2021 claiming she had had enough of years of abuse - now his brother has sided with her

Paedophile pop star Gary Glitter has recently been released from prison after being convicted of child sex offences, and his son has shared hopes to reconnect with him