All news on the topic: Life sentence

Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven premature babies and attempting to murder six more while working at The Countess of Chester Hospital. She is facing a whole-life sentence today

Nurse Beverley Allitt was jailed for life for murdering four children, the attempted murders of three others, and causing GBH to six more - 30 years before Lucy Letby case

Professor Mike Berry, of Liverpool’s John Moores University says there are many similarities between killed nurses Lucy Letby and Beverley Allitt, who was jailed for life in 1991

The mother of a stabbing victim is campaigning against knife crime, and she wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister at the launch of the petition

Former Family Feud contestant Timothy Bliefnick, who had mocked his marriage on TV, has been sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murder of his wife

Joan Lawrence and Marie McCourt, whose daughters have never been found, have formed a strong bond through their shared experience and recently marked their 80th birthdays

Sharon Carr, who was 12 when she fatally stabbed a stranger and then boasted about it in jail, has still been deemed a danger to the public more than 30 years after the killing

Schoolgirl Nikki Allan was lured to a derelict building in Sunderland by David Boyd and left dead in the basement. A botched police investigation meant Boyd wasn't convicted for more than 30 years

Connor Chapman, 23, was jailed for a minimum of 48 years last month for the murder of Elle Edwards, 26 - who he shot dead outside the Lighthouse pub in Merseyside on Christmas Eve

Dairo Antonio Úsuga, known as Otoniel, was the boss of Colombia’s notorious Gulf Clan group which he ran in a 'reign of terror' for over ten years before law enforcement brought him down. He was sentenced Tuesday after he pleaded guilty in January to a number of charges

Serial killer Robert Pickton killed 49 women at his isolated farm and fed some to his pigs and some to butcher's shop customers - some were even sold to police investigating the case

Stephen Ansbro has been jailed for life after killing gran-of-nine Jane Collinson. The court heard he warned he would kill her after discovering she had complained about him to their home's manager

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Katarzyna Bastek was attacked in her Manchester home by evil Suleman Altaf who stabbed her and then killed her 15-year-old son Jakub Szymanski when he ran to help her

Lee Ryan blew his fortune on a mansion, supercars and a plane and helicopter and ended up living on the streets but now, with his new job as a decorator, he insists: "I'm the happiest I've ever been"

Evil Joe Rankin travelled to the home of Emma Potter, in Stroud, Gloucestershire, and repeatedly stabbed her then raped her dead body which was only discovered weeks later by police

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Little Jacob Crouch was "viciously" murdered at his Derbyshire home in December 2020 by his stepdad as his mum did nothing to help the ten-month-old baby

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: The past year has seen a troubling number of parents sentenced in the UK for killing their children during lockdown, being put behind bars for their appalling crimes

Promising boxer Rico Burton - the cousin of Tyson Fury - was stabbed to death in Altrincham, Cheshire, in August last year after a fight erupted between two groups of men

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WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Craig Crouch bragged 'there is always a hierarchy' in the disturbing WhatsApp voice note sent to Gemma Barton, both of whom have been convicted over a campaign of cruelty towards Jacob Crouch

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT – Rachel Tunstill secretly gave birth to daughter Mia Kelly before she stabbed her 14 times with a pair of scissors and dumped her corpse in a bin. She never showed a shred of remorse for her string of vile lies.

Rachel Tunstill, who was housed at HMP Styal in Cheshire, has died in prison. She was sentenced to life with a minimum of 17 years for killing her newborn baby with a pair of scissors

Lori Vallow Daybell shared a chilling statement in court just before she was sentenced to life without parole for the deaths of her children, Tylee Ryan, 16, and JJ Vallow, seven, as well as her husband's former wife, Tammy Daybell, 49

Michael Ugwa, 29, was killed last year in Lakeside Shopping Centre, Essex, by Muhammad Khan, 23, after a furious argument broke out when he complimented a woman

Elizabeth Archibeque has been sentenced to life without parole after her six-year-old son was found unresponsive and malnourished having been kept in a tiny closet which reeked of urine