Two teenage killers, 18 and 16, who tried to decapitate factory worker with a Samurai sword jailed

The widow of a father-of-two have said his drug-addled teenage killers ‘do not deserve a place in society,’ after they were jailed for life for hacking him 100 times with a samurai sword and trying to cut his head off.   Kiyran Earnshaw, 18, and Luke Gaukroger, 16, have been sentenced at Leeds Crown Court to … Read more

Two teenage killers, 18 and 16, who tried to decapitate factory worker with a Samurai sword jailed

Two schoolboys have been jailed for life for the 100-blow Samurai sword murder of factory supervisor Robert Wilson. Kiyran Earnshaw, 18, and Luke Gaukroger, 16, have been sentenced at Leeds Crown Court to minimum terms of 22 years and 16 years, eight months respectively. The teenagers were confronted by Mr Wilson’s wife during the trial who asked … Read more

£465,000 legal aid for PC Andrew Harper’s killers with his widow Lissie ‘horrified’ by figure

The killers of hero policeman Andrew Harper have received £465,000 in legal aid, the Mail can reveal. The astonishing sum was paid to solicitors and barristers defending the three teenagers who dragged the constable to his death behind a car for more than a mile. Last night PC Harper’s widow Lissie said she was ‘horrified’ by … Read more

Two of PC Andrew Harper’s killers ‘are planning to write a book about their crime

Two of PC Andrew Harper’s killers ‘are planning to write a book about their crime and have enlisted help of ”associate” in prison because neither can read or write’ Money made as a result of a crime or in connection to a crime can be confiscated Sources said  the two are ‘strutting around like celebrities’ … Read more

JAN MOIR: Yes, the lash is horrific, but so is letting killers hide from justice 

Surely no civilised person could condone the barbaric sentence meted out to Ye Ming Yuen for drug offences in Singapore.  The former public schoolboy was given 20 years after being found guilty of selling a small amount of illegal drugs to his friends; an amount that probably would have got him 12 months in a … Read more

Stephen Lawrence’s mother accuses Met Police of giving up on nailing her son’s killers 

Stephen Lawrence’s mother accused Scotland Yard of giving up on her son last night after the force effectively conceded defeat in its quest to nail all of his racist killers. In a carefully-worded statement 27 years after the teenager was murdered, Met chief Dame Cressida Dick said the inquiry had run out of leads. She … Read more

PC Andrew Harper’s widow calls for full life jail terms for killers

PC Harper’s widow calls for Andrew’s Law that would jail cop killers for life after traveller trio dragged her husband to his death in line of duty Lissie Harper said she would to ‘never stop’ in pursuit of justice for her husband She wants killers of emergency workers to be given full-life sentences in court The … Read more

Hero PC Andrew Harper’s family arrive at court for killers’ sentencing

Hero PC Andrew Harper’s family have arrived at the Old Bailey for today’s sentencing of his three teenager killers after they were cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughter.  His widow, Lissie Harper, who had only been married to the 28-year-old for four weeks before his death on August 15 last year, was among those … Read more

Hero PC Andrew Harper’s family arrive at court for killers’ sentencing

Hero PC Andrew Harper’s family have arrived at the Old Bailey for today’s sentencing of his three teenager killers after they were cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughter.  His widow, Lissie Harper, who had only been married to the 28-year-old for four weeks before his death on August 15 last year, was among those … Read more