There are no open prisons in Britain you dullard.

EU courts have no justification on life sentences. You may be thinking of whole life tariffs, but they ruled in favour of UK on that one.

Short answer is because the life sentences don’t carry any jail time, the jail time is set by the judge. This just means he will serve 25 years, go in front of a parole board and promptly be rejected and then go back to jail for another determined amount of time before going in front of parole board again. This will…

I work in the UK court system, so yes I literally do. 22 life sentences is unprecedented in UK legal history.

There is absolutely no chance he gets out in 25 years. This type of sentence is completely unprecedented, and designed by the judge so that he never breaths a free breathe.

‘life without parole’ only exists for murder in the UK and has only been issued 84 times in our history. However this man will not leave prison. No parole board will set him free, they legally couldn’t.

He will never leave jail. He will be considered for parole in 25 years and promptly rejected. Parole boards in the UK have to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the offender doesn’t pose a threat to the public before someone on one life tariff is set free, let alone 22 like this. The 25 years is a quirk of UK law, he…