Britain’s most notorious whole life killers as Sunak plans to make UK’s toughest sentence mandatory

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Serial killer nurse Lucy Letby has been handed a rare whole-life order, after being found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others at the neonatal unit where she worked For the first time, a whole-life tariff would be the default for any sexually motivated or sadistic murders, meaning it would have applied in the recent cases of Sabina Nessa and Zara Aleena. open image in gallery Stephen Port, the Grindr Killer, was sentenced to whole life imprisonment Ali Harbi Ali The terrorist who murdered Sir David Amess at the Conservative MP’s constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, was also handed a full-life order in April 2022. open image in gallery Sir David Amess was murdered in October 2021 Thomas Mair The far-right terrorist who killed Labour MP Jo Cox was also handed a full-life order in November 2016, after murdering the 41-year-old mother-of-two outside her West Yorkshire constituency surgery. open image in gallery Moors Murderer Myra Hindley died in 2002 open image in gallery Ian Brady died in high-security hospital at the age of 79 Harold Shipman Dubbed “Doctor Death” by the media, Harold Shipman was one Britain’s most prolific serial killers and is thought to have murdered hundreds of patients.