All news on the topic: Life sentence

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Stepdad admits torturing and killing girl, 5, who died with 70 horror injuries
Nadia Zofia Kalinowska was found dead at the family home in Newtonabbey in 2019 - Abdul Wahab has been in court this week accused of her murder, alongside his partner Aleksandra Wahab
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Gunman's instagram in boast after he's jailed for shooting schoolgirl, 15
Rio Jones, 19, was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 16-and-a-half years last Tuesday (January 10) after spraying bullets on a residential street in Liverpool hitting a 15-year-old schoolgirl in the neck
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Secret bunkers with Viagra found after 30-years-on-run mafia boss arrested
Police have discovered a secret bunker behind a sliding floor at the back of a wardrobe in a Sicilian mafia boss' apartment after he was arrested following 30 years on the run
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Notorious cartel kingpin El Chapo begs Mexico to free him from ‘cruel’ US prison
Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman was jailed for life in the United States after being extradited in 2017 and convicted of a range of drug, money laundering and organised crime charges
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Killer brought to justice after 50 years snared by evidence police gave him back
Dennis McGrory, 75, has been jailed at Huntingdon Crown Court for life with a minimum term of 25 years after being convicted of the rape and murder of teenager Jacqui Montgomery nearly 50 years ago
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Psychopath who killed two escorts and incinerated bodies jailed for 49 years
Perverted double murderer Mark Brown killed Leah Ware and Alexandra Morgan in 2021 and torched their bodies in an oil drum at a farm near Hastings, Sussex, as the family speak of their trauma
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Charles Bronson in freedom bid as fundraiser launched to buy him £32,500 caravan
Charles Bronson's son, George Bamby-Salvador, is hoping to raise £32,500 by setting up a Just Giving page so that he can buy a caravan for his dad following his parole hearing
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Killers jailed as love triangle feud erupts and rival stabbed to death in garden
Mark Meadows and his loyal half-brother Travis Gorton have been caged for life for plotting to 'get rid' of dad-of-two love rival Keith Green in a vicious knife attack
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Evil killer who torched man alive in burning car and beat another to death dies
Robin Stanislaw Ligus died at the age of 70 on December 16, Birmingham and Solihull Coroner's Court confirmed. He killed Robert Young, Trevor Bradley and Brian Coles in the 1990s
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Wife killer in 1st public parole hearing to be freed despite admitting cover-up
Russell Causley made history as the first UK prisoner to face a public parole hearing - he was convicted of killing his 40-year-old wife Carole Packman after she went missing in 1985
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Killer slit mum's throat in posh village after she ended fling over age gap
John Jessop, 26, had been in a brief relationship with mum-of-three Clair Ablewhite, 47, and he killed her six days after she ended things, Nottinghamshire Police said today
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Murderer who battered disabled man to death as he begged for life dies in crash
Stephen Bonallie, 32, was just a teenager when he battered vulnerable Brent Martin to death in 2007 along with two others but on being released early from prison he died in a car crash on New Year's Eve
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Gangsters who killed two teens in drive-by shooting still at large 20 years on
Four people were jailed for life for the killing of friends Charlene Ellis, 18, and Letisha Shakespeare, 17, as they left a house party in January 2003 - but their families believe more never faced justice
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Serial killers who walked free from The Serpent to the Panama Strangler
The Serpent was freed last week after a court ruled in favour due to his age and good behaviour despite murdering at around 24 tourists - but he isn't the only one to taste freedom