Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2009] All ER (D) 12 (Apr)
Neutral Citation: [2009] EWHC 623 (QB)
Court: Queen's Bench Division
Judge:

Flaux J
Judgment Dates: 31 March 2009

Catchwords

Sentence - Mandatory life sentence - Murder - Minimum term - Application for review of minimum term - Appropriate minimum term -  22, para 3.

The Case

Sentence Mandatory life sentence. Queen's Bench Division: On an application under para3 of Sch22 to the a minimum term of 18 years, less 8 months and 23 days representing time which had been spent in custody on remand, was adjudged to be appropriate in a case where the offender had killed a defenceless woman in an alleyway; such offence having been planned or pre-meditated; and of which the victim had, prior to her death, suffered a certain degree of physical and mental suffering.

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