All news on the topic: Life sentence

The family of Bennylyn and Jellica Burke have called for the return of the death penalty after Andrew Innes' evil crimes in Dundee were highlighted in a new grisly TV series

The actions of Thomas Dunn were branded "horrific", Cheshire Police said, following the dispute with grandfather-of-six Royston Costello, from Sandbach, Cheshire

Jeremy Goodale lamented his decision of murdering his Spanish teacher to an Iowa court Wednesday before being given a life sentence with parole in 25 years

Nizamodeen Hosein and his brother Arthur kidnapped Muriel McKay after mistaking her for the then wife of newspaper magnate Rupert Murdoch - her body has never been found

Toby Kelly ran over Sheldon Flanighan in a pub car park and, though he denied his murder, jurors were shown damning evidence, including shocking bodycam footage

Thomas Cashman whinged he would be an old man once released from jail after he's served his sentence for murdering nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool

Shawn Seesahai was fatally knifed while standing with a group of friends on playing fields in Bilston, West Midlands, on Monday. He died before getting to hospital

Evil Thomas Cashman asked judges to allow him to appeal his 42-year minimum sentence after being refused leave in July

Venables, 41, was freed in 2001 from a life sentence for killing James Bulger, two, but was recalled to jail in 2010 and 2017 after being found with child abuse imagery

The senseless murder of little Baby P was a crime that shocked the world back in 2007, but the heartless mother who tortured him is now free to live her life

WARNING DISTURBING: Michael McGrane raped the young girl on "hundreds" of occasions before becoming a doctor and moving to Australia, where he drugged and assaulted multiple female patients

Michelle Morrison who was wrongfully convicted over the 2007 shooting of Keith Brown celebrated her college graduation one year after her release

The heart-broken family of murder victim Kasey Anderson have spoken about their grief at the loss of 'the best big brother' and how he will never become a father himself

Much-loved Kasey Anderson, 24, who was murdered by his 47-year-old girlfriend Natalie Bennett, rang for help as he lay on the floor dying from a stab wound in his heart

Natalie Bennett, 47, was convicted of the murder of her partner Kasey Anderson, 24, after stabbing him to death and she was given a life sentence with a minimum term of 18 years

Mason Sisk brutally shot his dad, stepmum and three siblings in the head in a case described as being “draped in unmitigated evil”

After a campaign of abuse against her younger partner, Natalie Bennett launched a horrific knife attack on Kasey Anderson, before she lied to police as he bled to death on her driveway

In the hours leading up to the fatal attack Michael Daymond made repeated calls and log-in attempts to sort out his Universal Credit status. Later that afternoon he said tot Maya was gasping for breath

Kelly Pitt, 44, a devoted grandma, was described as a 'lovely person inside and out' when she was found dead at home in Newport on May 10 - her son Lewis Bush, 27, was jailed today

Katie Tidmarsh was told by sentencing judge Mr Justice Mark Wall that baby Ruby Thompson was a “defenceless young child” and your actions “constituted a gross breach of trust”

Brent Ray Brewer, 53, was condemned for the April 1990 death of Robert Laminack, 66, who was attacked as he was giving Brewer and his girlfriend a ride to a Salvation Army location

Texas inmate Brent Ray Brewer whose attorneys say received a death sentence due to false and unscientific expert testimony faces execution on Thursday evening for fatally stabbing an man during a robbery

'Britain's most dangerous female prisoner' Joanna Dennehy, who was handed a life sentence in 2014 after her frenzied killing spree, told police she found killing her victims 'moreish and fun'

Ahmad Al Sino confronted Mohammed Salem Ibrahim on his own doorstep in Castle Vale, Birmingham, and stabbed him four times with a knife later found in a plastic bag in the killer's car

The Black Dolphin is one of the world's most notorious prisons and is home to 700 rapists, murderers and cannibals serving life without parole and they're not even allowed out of their cells