The new Victims and Prisoners Act bans inmates who are serving whole life tariffs from getting hitched
Two of the North West's most heinous killers have been told they can not get hitched while behind bars.
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.
In 2013, Dale Cregan was handed a whole life order at Preston Crown Court after being found guilty of murdering police women Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone in a bullet and grenade attack. He was also convicted of killing father and son David and Mark Hughes before the attack on the officers. The list of prisoners now blocked from getting married also includes Wayne Couzens, who raped and murdered Sarah Everard, and killer Levi Bellfield. Bellfield has previously applied to marry his girlfriend and made a bid for legal aid to challenge a decision to block his marriage. It is understood he withdrew his application to get married but had submitted a new application for a civil partnership in recent months.
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