The North West's most heinous killers now blocked from getting married knot behind bars

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Two of the North West's most heinous killers have been told they can not get hitched while behind bars. Dale Cregan, who will spend the rest of his life in a cell for the murder of four people including two female police officers in Tameside, and Mark Fellows, the Salford hitman behind two killings, are among 70 of the UK's worst criminals who have been blocked from getting married or entering a civil partnership under new legislation that came into force yesterday (August 2).

The new Lord Chancellor signed a measure in the Victims and Prisoners Act into law banning inmates who are serving whole life tariffs from getting hitched, as LancsLive reports.

Inmates serving whole life orders have no chance of being released from jail, unless in except in exceptional compassionate circumstances. READ MORE: PICTURED: The criminals locked up in Greater Manchester this month READ MORE: Woman arrested after boy, 13, attacked by 'out of control' dogs on Salford field This will deny the most heinous criminals from enjoying the important life events they callously took from their victims, while preventing families from the trauma of seeing them getting married or entering civil partnerships.

Whole life orders are reserved for exceptionally serious offences, such as serial or child murders which involved a substantial degree of premeditation or sexual or sadistic conduct.