All news on the topic: Life sentence

Cowardly killer Thomas Cashman refused to even show up to hear his sentence and the family’s victim impact statements after he was found guilty of killing Olivia in Dovecot, Liverpool

David Carrick was sentenced to life in prison in February on 49 charges of sex attacks, including 24 counts of rape

Evil killer Jamie Barrow smiled as he spoke to Nottinghamshire Police after putting petrol through his neighbours' letter box and starting a fire, killing Fatoumatta Hydara and her two young daughters

Heartbroken dad and husband Aboubacarr Drammeh addressed murderer Jamie Barrow in court as he was sentenced for the murders of Fatoumatta Hydara, Fatimah Drammeh and Naeemah Drammeh

Elle Edwards' family statements were read out to the court before killer Connor Chapman was handed a life sentence to gasps and outbursts from those in the public gallery

Jamie Barrow murdered Fatoumatta Hydara and her two young daughters Fatimah Drammeh, three, and Naeemah Drammeh, one, in Clifton, Nottingham last November. Today he was jailed for life

Jason Moore was imprisoned for the 2005 stabbing of Robert Darby, but his family are appealing against the conviction

Leeann White has insisted new rules which give police extra powers to search previous offenders for blades do not go far enough as they can only be used on over-18s

Lord Chancellor Alex Chalk has asked a Parole Board to reconsider its decision to allow double child killer Colin Pitchfork to be released, said the Ministry of Justice

Ten days before Christmas last year police broke down the door and were confronted by Saju Chelavalel, who was holding a knife and screaming “shoot me”. The bodies of his wife and two children were in a nearby room

WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: Police called to minor accident overpowered by the stench of death coming from killer’s van

Kemalettin Kurt, 28, has been sentenced after he was found to have sexually assaulted a sleeping woman who has a disorder which means she cannot keep herself awake

Matthew White chillingly told a black man who confronted him, as he attempted to shoplift in Eltham, South East London in 2020, that he would be “Stephen Lawrenced”

WARNING: DISTRESSING DETAILS Paris Mayo murdered little Stanley Mayo shortly after giving birth at her parents' home in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, in March 2019 when she was just 15

Trevor Raekwon Seward, 25, has been convicted of killing a mail carrier who instead of delivering a large package of marijuana to his home left a note in the mailbox asking him to pick it up

Rawden Ibbitson, 32, inflicted more than 90 injuries, including multiple fractures, a bleed to the brain and internal injuries in the attack on June 6 last year, Leeds Crown Court heard

Tony King, who murdered Sabrina Cooper at her home just before Christmas, has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 23 years

Muhammad Arslan has been jailed for life after being found guilty of murdering 21-year-old Hina Bashir, who was found with a floral patterned mask stuffed in her mouth

Scotland Yard revealed it is carrying out a new probe to see if the latest technology can spark a breakthrough in the investigation into Stephen Lawrence's murder

Over 30 million people watched the discovery of two dead bodies on a Seattle beach as police launched a hunt to track down the killer

Much-loved grandmother Michelle Hanson was found stabbed in neck. University of Sunderland student Alexander Carr admitted murdering her and was today sentence at Newcastle Crown Court

Babis Anagnostopoulos staged an elaborate home invasion after slaughtering his wife Caroline Crouch in May 2021 before playing the grieving husband in interviews with Greek media

The shocking case of the mother sentenced to 28 months in prison after taking abortion pills after the legal limit has thrown up more debate over this complicated and confusing issue, and left Polly Hudson wondering what it is to be truly pro-choice

James Watson was jailed for life for murdering six-year-old Rikki Neave, who was strangled to death in woodlands, but Watson has challenged his conviction on grounds evidence was lost

A confidante of Colonel Gaddafi, who was assassinated in 2011 by Libyan rebel forces, said he allowed the Lockerbie bomber to be jailed for the attack despite knowing of his innocence