Locked up for decades - the criminals facing the longest jail terms judges have handed out
The man who killed Olivia Pratt-Korbel in a deadly shooting in Liverpool was locked for a minimum term of 42 years last week.
Here are some of the longest jail terms handed out to terrorists, killers and sex offenders around the UK.Thomas Cashman will spend decades behind bars for the murder of Liverpool schoolgirl Olivia Pratt-Korbel after he was handed a life sentence at Manchester Crown Court last week. Footage played to the jury showed the gunman, wearing tracksuit bottoms which matched a pair worn by Cashman, chasing Nee up Kingsheath Avenue and firing three shots. The jury was told Nee ran towards the open door of Olivia’s family home, after Ms Korbel came out to see what the noise was, and the fatal shot was fired through the front door. It hit Ms Korbel in the wrist as she tried to shut the door and struck Olivia in the chest.
Ahead of his trial at Derby Crown Court, the 32-year-old pleaded guilty to murdering 35-year-old Terri Harris, her 11-year-old daughter Lacey Bennett, her son John Paul Bennett, 13, and Lacey’s friend Connie Gent, 11, with a claw hammer at the home he shared with Ms Harris in 2021. The ex-con also admitted raping Lacey, during what prosecutor Louis Mably KC told the court were “truly hideous and dreadful” attacks on a defenceless woman and young children.
In a victim impact statement read to court, Ms Harris’s mother Angela Smith – who branded Bendall “evil” – said: “John would tell me when he was younger, he was scared of monsters. I would tell him there’s no such thing as monsters. How wrong I was.” The judge said that between the start of the school holidays in July and Sebastian’s death in August, there was “scarcely a day that went by that Sebastian was not subjected to some form of physical abuse”. She told the defendants: “Sebastian was a young teenage boy who spoke little if any English, had neither friends nor allies in this country and was wholly dependent on you both for his wellbeing.
Two residents were also seriously hurt. Joel Richards suffered third-degree burns, while Laura Wiggins was left with a punctured lung, a kidney hematoma and fractures to her pelvis, ribs, right arm and spine. A court heard how Kigundu planned the attack after growing angry that his neighbours had complained about his antisocial behaviour and losing his job as a BT engineer in the months before.
James Sinclair A man who stabbed a mother-of-two to death and attempted to murder another woman 24 hours later in two “unprovoked” attacks was locked up for 41 years in August last year. James Sinclair was handed the prison sentence after being found guilty of the murder of Shadika Patel and the attempted murder of a 48-year-old woman, following a trial at the Old Bailey.
Sinclair was convicted of one count of murder and one count of attempted murder. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum term of 41 years for murder, with a concurrent life imprisonment term, with a minimum of 18 years for the attempted murder, the Met said. Sinclair refused to attend court during his trial and never gave an explanation for why he attacked the two women.
Knife-wielding Ali was later apprehended by two police officers armed only with batons and spray. Dramatic footage of the stand-off was captured on police bodyworn cameras. Russell strangled Mr Williams with a lanyard and left the body under his bed where it was found by police five days later, covered in 87 injuries. Afterwards, he claimed he had killed a man who “had sex with his girlfriend”. He then strangled Mr Williams’ mother in a “violent and sustained attack” in which she was hit five times on the head and neck, prosecutors said. She had 113 separate injuries, and is believed to have been killed because she found out Russell had murdered her son.
He then enacted his “vile fantasy” to have sex with her dead or dying body before dumping her body in woods in Enfield, north London. Earlier the same night, the delivery driver targeted two other vulnerable women in the area, the court was told. Daniel Boulton A double murderer was hunted down by police and arrested 24 hours after he killed his ex-partner and her nine-year-old autistic son. The 31-year-old was jailed for life with a minimum term of 40 years in February 2022 after he was found guilty of murder.
The 62-year-old killed 51-year-old Ms Bailey in 2016 and dumped her body in the cesspit of the £1.5 million home they shared in Royston in Hertfordshire. A trial at St Albans Crown Court heard it was most likely she was suffocated while sedated by drugs, and Stewart was found guilty of her murder in 2017.
In 1987, Fuller strangled two women to death before sexually assaulting them in separate attacks in Tunbridge Wells in Kent. Wendy Knell, 25, was found dead in her apartment on June 23, while Caroline Pierce, 20, was snatched five months later on November 24 outside her home in Grosvenor Park. In December 2021, Fuller was handed a whole life sentence for the murders with a concurrent 12-year term for his other crimes. In December last year, he was sentenced for further depraved acts. Fuller, now 68, was sentenced to a further four years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually abusing the bodies of 23 more women aged between 45 and 92, 10 of whom have never been identified.
Both deaths were investigated as sudden and unexplained events but Ruby’s death was attributed to bronchiolitis and Logan’s cause of death remained “unascertained”. In the days after Logan's death, Monaghan told the media of his “heartbreak” at losing both of his children as he posed for photos with Miss Gray, their grieving mother, telling reporters "it feels as if history is repeating itself".
Jonathan Houseman A businessman convicted of murdering two men in cold blood to avoid paying a £400,000 debt will spend at least 40 years in prison after he was jailed for life in September 2021. Jonathan Houseman shot the two men in the head, killing them instantly, in "what was effectively an execution", a trial heard.
Mr Henry was killed when his partner, Denni Ullah, was four months pregnant with their first child, a girl. “I had to continue the remaining five months alone, completely broken whilst mourning my dead partner – I gave birth, attended scans and will raise our daughter alone," Ms Ullah said. The judge, Lord Justice Fulford, described how Couzens acted “entirely as normal” following the murder, carrying out “prosaic” tasks, including booking dental appointments for his children and calling the vet about his dog Maddie over “separation anxiety”.
Khairi Saadallah Khairi Saadallah left three men dead when he launched a 'swift, ruthless' knife attack on innocent people in a Reading park. The terrorist was handed a whole-life sentence in January 2021 after pleading guilty to three murders and three attempted murders. Saadallah, a failed Libyan asylum seeker, was also sentenced to concurrent 24-year jail terms for the attempted murders of Stephen Young, Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan. He later lost a Court of Appeal challenge against his whole-life sentence.
The Attorney General’s Office referred the initial 30-year minimum jail term handed to Sinaga to the Court of Appeal as “unduly lenient”. In December 2020, a panel of five judges refused to impose a whole life term but increased the minimum sentence to 40 years. He was found guilty of 37 charges relating to 11 victims and was described by sentencing judge Mr Justice Edis as a “classic psychopath”. The judge said he found it difficult to see how McCann could ever be safely released.
The judge told him: “The defendant and his brother were equally culpable for the deaths and injuries caused. The stark reality is that these were atrocious crimes, large in their scale, deadly in their intent, and appalling in their consequences. The despair and desolation of the bereaved families has been palpable.”
Osborne, from Cardiff, was found guilty of terrorism-related murder and jailed for life with a minimum term of 43 years in February 2018. In November 2016, Port was convicted of 22 offences against 11 men, including the four murders, four rapes, 10 counts of administering a substance, and four sex assaults. He was handed a whole life tariff.
The father-of-one died as a result of multiple cut and stab wounds after the attack fuelled by Adebowale and Adebolajo’s extremist beliefs, described as a “betrayal of Islam” at their murder trial in 2014. Adebolajo was sentenced to a whole life term, while Adebowale received a 45-year minimum term.
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