All news on the topic: Life sentence

Robert Findlay Smith had been sitting alone at the Alabama dinner when a churchgoer approached him and offered him to join them - he declined and then pulled out a handgun, shooting and killing three people

Margaret Dale Hawke pleaded guilty to three counts of murder in the family's Port Hedland home and has been given a minimum non-parole period of 25 years by the Supreme Court in Perth, Australia

Jennifer Johnson, from Ohio, US, is fighting to stop her dad, Daniel Johnson, from being freed after he murdered her mum and "raped her corpse" on Boxing Day, 1989

Reece Radford intervened when the teenager was assaulted by Dereck Owusu in Sheffield city centre, but Mr Radford was fatally stabbed in the ensuing fight

Eltiona Skana killed Emily Jones after snatching her from her scooter in Queens Park, Bolton, on Mother's Day, before being sentenced to life in prison

Jason Moore is serving a life sentence for the 2005 knifing of Robert Darby in Ilford, East London. But Robert’s family insist Moore did not commit the crime

Ashley Kemp, 55, has been jailed for life for the murder of beauty salon owner Clair Armstrong having headbutted and then strangled her in a fit of rage after she threatened to dump him over rape allegations

In his chilling search history the Turkish man had looked up "punishment for killing a cheating wife" and "which diseases do not have a criminal liability"

Netflix's new Monster series - which told the story of Jeffrey Dahmer last year - will focus on two brothers convicted of brutally killing their parents in 1989

The staff member at HMP Belmarsh - Britain's most secure prison - is reportedly being investigated over allegations of a romantic relationship with murderer Jordan McSweeney

Paul Russell, jailed for assisting Thomas Cashman in the murder of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel, said he "terrified" after the killer gave him one final message

Arthur Salters-Hoult, from Newcastle, Tyneside, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia early this year after lumps began to appear on his head and throat and there was more bad news to come

Jake Fahri will soon face the Parole Board and learn whether he is to be released. He killed the 16-year-old at a cafe in 2008 in a crime that shocked the country

Disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh had already faced 99 charges in relation to unreported taxes, stolen money and fraud after allegedly owing nearly $500,000 in taxes in a case that shocked the US

The pair tortured the 10-year-old victim, spraying him with hot sauce, forcing them to fight one another and made the youngsters kneel for lengthy periods on concrete floors, nails or uncooked rice at the home in Lancaster, Los Angeles

A person dressed as a clown came to Marlene Warren's door in Wellington, Florida, on a May morning in 1990, handed her carnations and balloons and then shot her dead in front of her son

Lewis Jones, 24, from Liverpool, was today jailed for life after abducting the child from a field where she was playing with her cousins alongside her sister’s house

Babis Anagnostopoulos, 35, told appeals court judges in Athens on Monday that his lawyer had “fallen sick and is in hospital and cannot represent me” before requesting that the case be adjourned

Clippers shooting guard Kawhi Leonard's sister and an accomplice have been sentenced to life in prison following the murder of an 84-year-old woman following a robbery at casino in California in 2019

Juliana Bonilla-Herrera fled the worrying crime levels in her native Colombia and built a safe and happy life for herself in New Zealand – but then a sinister stranger moved in next door

Christian Miguel Bishop-Torrence from Wichita Falls, Texas, was charged with murder after his one-year-old baby starved to death, weighing less than she did when she was first born

Thomas Cashman refused to go into the dock to hear his sentence for shooting nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel as he chased a drug dealer into her home in Liverpool last August

Matthew Rodwell had hid in his young's son's wardrobe as his partner's ex and son arrived at the house they shared in Downham Market, Norfolk. He called 999 fearful of what was about to happen

Child killer Thomas Cashman rode around on a bicycle during the Queen's funeral trying to intimidate potential witnesses after shooting dead nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel, police believe

Joaquin Guzman Lopez, 36, Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar, 37, and Ivan Guzman Salazar, 40, are said to front the Sinaloa cartel with 'El Chapo' Joaquín Guzmán himself in prison for life