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Ministers plan to expand whole-life sentences for ‘most horrific’ murderers

Currently rare prison orders with little chance of parole would become default for worst offenders under MoJ proposals

Murderers whose offences have a sexual motivation face spending the whole of their lives behind bars – with no chance of being released – under plans announced by the government on Saturday.

Ministers plan to expand the use of the rare whole-life term, the sentence given to the child serial killer Lucy Letby, so it can be handed down to more of the most serious offenders.

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