Sarah Everard's killer, Wayne Couzens, appeals against whole-life sentence
There are 64 people currently in prison in England and Wales under whole-life orders, which are reserved for exceptional cases and mean they will never be released.
He said the sentencing judge was entitled to the view that there was a "lack of general contrition" and a whole-life order was right in this "wholly exceptional case". Today's super appeal is the second time in a decade that top judges in England and Wales have considered the law and practice of whole-life terms, after ruling in 2012 that they were compatible with human rights safeguards.
The panel will now wrestle with these complex and tragic cases before potentially coming up with some guiding principles. But it's already clear where the judiciary stand in general - on average, they've imposed far more whole-life orders since taking over the job from ministers some 20 years ago.Emma Tustin is challenging her sentence of at least 29 years for the murder of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, while the Attorney General is arguing it was too lenient.
Tustin's lawyer, Mary Prior QC, said the sentence was given by a highly experienced trial judge after considering all the evidence.
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