Warped murderers who will die in jail as killer cop Wayne Couzens given full life sentence
| Published date | 30 September 2021 |
| Publication title | Daily Mirror, The: Web Edition Articles (London, England) |
The cop handcuffed the young woman before putting her in the back of his rented car and driving 80 miles to Kent.
He then raped the marketing executive and strangled her with his police-issue belt.
In rare instances, criminals are handed a sentence of whole-life tariffs -with some given 'life means life' terms by judges, while others must remain behind bars forever on the order of the then Home Secretary.
These are the killers who will never walk the streets of Britain again.
Robert John Maudsley -'Hannibal the Cannibal'
Maudsley was dubbed 'Hannibal The Cannibal' and 'Jaws' for his crimes even though there is no evidence he ate anyone.
He has spent a record time in solitary confinement for the murders of four people -three of which took place in prison.
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He was alleged to have eaten part of the brain of one three men he killed in jail, earning him his grim nickname.
He was jailed for life in 1977 and became Britain's longest serving prisoner following Ian Brady's death in 2017.
John Childs
Childs was convicted of carrying out six contract killings, including a 10-year-old boy.
He was jailed for life in 1979.
Arthur Hutchinson
Hutchinson crashed a wedding reception in 1983 and murdered the bride's father, mother and brother, before raping her sister at knifepoint.
He was issued with a whole-life tariff by the Home Secretary, Leon Brittan.
Jerry Bamber
Bamber shot dead his adoptive parents, sister and six-year-old twin nephews at the family farmhouse in Essex.
He was convicted in 1986 and given a whole-life tariff by the Home Secretary.
Victor Miller
Miller abducted, sexually assaulted and battered a 14-year-old boy to death in Worcestershire in 1988.
Police believe he was responsible for 30 unsolved sexual assaults.
He has asked to die in prison.
John Duffy -'Railway killer'
Duffy attacked numerous women and raped and murdered at least three of them in the south of England in the 80s.
He later gave evidence against his accomplice David Mulcahy, who was then jailed for life for three murders and seven rapes.
Anthony Arkwright
In 1989, Arkwright went on a two-day killing spree where he hacked and battered three people to death, including his elderly grandfather.
He was the youngest offender to be issued with a whole-life tariff at the age of 21.
Mark Robinson
Robinson murdered two of his girlfriends in 1989. He was sentenced to life in prison and later handed a whole-life tariff.
Malcolm Green
In 1971, Green was jailed for life for the brutal murder of a Cardiff prostitute.
He was released in 1989 and shortly afterwards bludgeoned a tourist from New Zealand to death.
Given a whole-life tariff by the Home Secretary.
Rosemary West
In 1995, West was convicted of the murder of 10 women and girls in her home in Gloucester.
The victims included one of her daughters and a step-daughter.
Her husband Fred West killed himself in jail before he could be tried for 12 murders.
She is one of just two women serving a whole-life tariff.
Peter Moore -'The Man in Black'
Moore killed four men in sexually motivated attacks in Wales and was jailed for life in 1996.
Paul Glen
Glen served 13 years for killing a hotelier in 1989. He was released on parole in 2002 and killed again just two years later.
He was handed a whole-life sentence by a judge in 2004.
Phillip Heggarty
Heggarty murdered his friend Derk Bennett in a hammer attack in 2003.
The High Court ruled his life sentence must mean life.
Thomas McDowell
McDowell strangled and cut up trainee rabbi Andreas Hinz with a rip saw.
He then dumped his head, limbs and torso in bin bags in Camden, North London.
Given a full-life term in 2004.
Mark Martin -'Sneinton Strangler'
Between December 2004 and January 2005, Martin killed three homeless women in Nottingham.
He was sentenced to a whole-life term in 2008.
Mark Hobson
In July 2004, Hobson murdered his girlfriend at their home before luring her twin sister there and killing her too.
He fled and then killed an elderly couple a few...
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