Rishi Sunak announces mandatory whole-life orders for most heinous killers

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It is the most severe punishment available in the UK criminal justice system.

The law change will also for the first time make this the default sentence for any sexually-motivated murders.Sex attacker Jordan McSweeney was jailed for life with a minimum term of 38 years for murdering law graduate Ms Aleena as she walked home in east London.

The Prime Minister said: “I have shared the public’s horror at the cruelty of crimes we have seen recently. Justice Secretary Alex Chalk said: “A whole life order will now be the expectation for murderers where the killing involves sexual or sadistic conduct. Shadow justice secretary Steve Reed said: “No-one will take any lessons from this soft on crime Tory government.

“Labour is the party of law and order. In government, we will implement tougher sentences for dangerous criminals and build the prison places to put them behind bars.” The nurse joins a string of the country’s most dangerous offenders who are likely to die behind bars, including Sarah Everard’s killer Wayne Couzens, necrophiliac David Fuller and homegrown terrorist Ali Harbi Ali, who murdered MP Sir David Amess.

 

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