To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters hereThe court heard there are 64 prisoners currently serving whole-life orders and Couzens is “unique” in that he does not fall into any of the same category of case.Mr Sturman said the court should only give a whole-life order for the murder of a single person in “wholly exceptional” cases should and must be “very slow to do that”.Tim Little QC, for the Attorney General, said: “This was in any view a wholly exceptional case.
This was offending of the utmost seriousness involving a serving police officer who used know-how and equipment and the like to act as the perpetrator not the victim.“His criminality was found by the judge a fundamental attack on reality, on our democratic way of life.“The judge was entitled to form the view that he did in relation to a lack of genuine contrition.”The panel of senior judges will hand down the judgments on a date to be fixed..
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