All news on the topic: Life sentence

The notorious cleric Abu Hamza claims he should be released from Colorado’s supermax prison ADX Florence - known as the Alcatraz of the Rockies - under compassionate grounds

A heartbroken woman has told how she got one last phone call pleading for help from her abused mother before her life was cruelly taken away by her own son

Shanti Cooper had no idea that her spouse would resort to murder because she had doubts about appearing on a home rescue reality programme

HMP Kingston was built in 1877 and housed men serving life sentences until its closure in 2013. It has now been transformed into a residential block with luxury flats

WARNING DISTURBING: So-called "Cannibal Kathy" was delivered Australia's first ever life sentence without parole for the grisly murder of her boyfriend John Price that shocked the nation in 2001

Steve Wright, known as the Suffolk Strangler, has been re-arrested in connection with the unsolved murder of a teenage girl in 1999, while he serves a whole-life order for killing five women in 2006

Police have re-arrested Suffolk Strangler Steve Wright in connection to the unsolved murder of Victoria Hall, who was found dead in a ditch 24 years ago in September 1999

Pitchfork, who murdered two girls in Leicestershire, was released two years ago but found himself back behind bars after breaching his licence when he approached a young woman. The Parole Board has today rejected a fresh freedom bid

The man convicted of murdering Drew Carey's ex-fiancée Amie Harwick was sentenced to life behind behind bars more than three years after she fell to her death

Ben Moncrieff and his friends were walking towards a McDonald's in Bath city centre, in the early hours of Saturday, May 6. He was knifed to death by a then 15 year old

Twisted NHS nurse Lucy Letby is currently serving life behind bars, after murdering babies in her care and becoming only the fourth woman in Britain to be handed a whole-life order

Four years after PC Andrew Harper was killed in a horrific manner while trying to stop bike thieves, his widow Lissie has revealed she has found love again - with a 999 worker

Britain's most prolific child killer Lucy Letby has reportedly moved prisons and has been granted privileges other 'furious' inmates are forced to wait much longer for

Former NHS neonatal nurse Lucy Letby is now serving a life sentence behind bars, where reports claim she is 'happy as Larry' thanks to an apparent change in her circumstances

Lucy Letby, 33, served as a neonatal nurse at the Countess of Chester hospital and between 2015 and 2016 went on a horrific murder spree, killing seven babies and trying to kill six others

Monique Olivier, the wife of French serial killer Michel Fourniret, is standing trial in Nanterre, Paris, for Joanna’s brutal death and two other grisly killings

Findings have been published in the inquiry into murderer and serial necrophiliac David Fuller who is serving two whole life sentences for abusing bodies at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust hospitals

Sydney Powell would stop at nothing, including murder, to stop her mum discovering that she had been suspended from university

Clarence Ray Allen was serving a life sentence when he ordered the deaths of others while behind bars, leading him to be convicted of three counts of murder and sentenced to death

Britain’s seventh largest city, Liverpool plays an outsized role in the importing of drugs primarily cocaine which has had a devastating effect on the community

David Charles Zold, who was described as a "deviant, sexually manipulative individual" by a judge, has died at HMP Wakefield, aka Monster Mansion, while serving a life sentence for his vile crimes

World snooker champion Ronnie O'Sullivan - dubbed The Rocket - turned professional the same year his dad was locked up for stabbing Bruce Bryan to death in a nightclub

Ashley Dale's killers were sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court today. James Witham, 41, Joseph Peers, 29, Niall Barry, 26, and Sean Zeisz, 28, were all jailed for life

Peter Allen, who was caged in 2009 for the brutal slaying of dad-of-five Raymond Black, set upon notorious Paul Lyons at Perth Prison in a vicious jail brawl

Jurors were told to rot in hell after convicting Juned Sheikh and Surie Suksiri who had "battered the f**k" out of her stepdad Frank McKeever before dumping his body. The pair were sentenced to life today at the Old Bailey in London