A petition against the sentence of the man jailed for killing Katherine Leadbetter and her partner Matthew Field when he struck them with a stolen car last year garnered tens of thousands of signatures.
An appeal will be launched into the sentence of the man jailed for killing Katherine Leadbetter and her partner Matthew Field when he struck them with a stolen car last year, Attorney-General Shannon Fentiman says.
The ruling was labelled "grossly inadequate" by the victims' families and a petition created by the Opposition to appeal the sentence has garnered more than 46,000 signatures. "There is now not much more I can say as the matter is before the Court of Appeal, but I can confirm that the grounds of appeal that the sentence for manslaughter was manifestly inadequate, particularly as the judge had determined that the offence was a heinous offence," Ms Fentiman said.