All news on the topic: Life sentence

William Paterson, 43, was pictured handcuffed to a male officer while attending a funeral for his father the at Glasgow Crematorium - he's currently serving a life sentence

Lamar Johnson was freed from jai after serving 28 years of a life sentence for a killing he didn't commit, after a Missouri judge overturned his conviction

Maria Pearson, now 66, stabbed her ex-partner's new girlfriend Janet Newton to death in a Hartlepool street in 1986 and reportedly could soon be released after 35 years in jail

Killer Kenneth Noye, freed in 2019, has spoken out for the first time in a new book by Donal MacIntyre and Karl Howman. He also agreed to sit down after 40 years with the man who brought him to justice

Julia McKee, from Iver Heath, Bucks, is determined to combat domestic abuse after her best friend Sarah Henshaw was attacked with a claw hammer and strangled as she slept

Emma Pattison, 45, her daughter Lettie, 7, and her husband George, 39, were all found dead at their home within the private school's grounds in Surrey, in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Franklin McLeod, 55, found Whatsapp messages from a man on the phone of long-term girlfriend Marlene Coleman last summer before he stabbed her to death in a fit of rage

Serial rapist and former police officer David Carrick has been given 36 life sentences and will serve more than 30 years in prison, for crimes spanning almost two decades

Carrick, 48, lured the woman to his flat saying he was the “safest person” she could be with because he was an officer but then threatened her with the weapon when she tried to leave

Four decades ago drains blocked by rotting corpses exposed one of Britain’s most notorious mass murderers – Dennis Nilsen

Patrick Mackay, 70, has served 47 years for three killings but originally owned up to eight more – before retracting his admission

Mason Mills stabbed Kieron Moore to death after the victim attacked him with a plank of wood as he stood smoking outside his sister's house, wrongly believing him to be involved with his girlfriend

Edgardo Greco was wanted in Italy to serve a life sentence for the murders of two brothers which were "part of a 'mafia war'… that marked the early 1990s" in Italy

Mohammed El-Abboud posted several TikToks dancing with his accomplice's girlfriend, Romanian model Maria Amariucai, before murdering Louise Kam in a £4.6million romance fraud

The Old Bailey has sentenced Lee Bailey to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 39 years over the murders of Sharon Pickles and Clinton Ashmore who were killed in a two-day spree of violence

Mum-of-three Kristie Evans lived a sordid double life with her church leader husband David that ended with him being shot dead in their bed

Sophie Eastwood, who was named Daniel at the time of their sentencing, is serving a life term at Polmont prison in Brightons, Scotland for using shoelaces to strangle a cell-mate to death in 2004

Oliver Mailey shared a fundraising page for his son, Abel-Jax's, funeral and even got his name tattooed on his neck just a matter of weeks after he killed him

Miriam Berlow-Jackson welcomed Valerie Hayes and Jennifer Amnott into her family but was sickened to find out their alleged involvement in a plot to kidnap children and murder their parents

Every six days someone is killed by an offender on probation and criminals on licence killed a total of 599 people in the last decade- our criminal justice system is in crisis, so when will the Government address these deadly failings?

Andrew Malkinson was jailed for a rape in Greater Manchester which he has always denied committing - he could now see his name cleared as DNA evidence leads police to another man

Ava White was stabbed in the neck by a boy, then aged 14, who was later convicted of murder and given a life sentence with a minimum of 13 years. The victim's mum said her killer must die in prison

Stuart Campbell was jailed for life in December 2002 for the murder of his niece Danielle Jones, 15, and has been told he must remain behind bars by members of the Parole Board

Sana Muhammad was killed with a crossbow at her home in Ilford , east London, by her ex-husband Ramanodge Unmathallegadoo when she was eight months pregnant, and a report has suggested the Met could have done more

Serial killer Robert Maudsley, now 69, has been locked away in a glass prison cell since 1979 after he was sent down for murder