Life sentences in the EU are sort of oddball shit in that they don’t ever actually sentence anyone to life. It’s a minimum-before-parole-eligible-sentence for humanitarion reasons (don’t @ me about this). At the time of conviction in the UK the maximum anyone ever got was legally 37 years but that was for premeditated murder, which the EU generally thinks of worse than a bunch of childremoved (don’t @ me about this).
I don’t wanna jump in the trenches for judges here at all but the responsible judge might well have figured with an earliest possible parole at age 64 and him being Ian Watkins and never making that one, his earliest release would’ve been at 74 at which point he’d probably be dead and you don’t have to drag this shit through the ECHR for a number of years
The UK does actually have “whole life orders,” which mean you will die in prison. Wayne Couzens, who murdered Sarah Everard, received this sentence. The UK also isn’t in the EU.
I didn’t want to get into the whole shebang of it just to point out that may well have been a politically affected judgement given the UKs rather special relationship to the EU while they were in it but there’s a reason the Wiki Article of Whole Life Order Prisoners segregates between before the ECHR stepped in and after. Ian Watkins 2013 conviction is very much within EU timeframe, Wayne Couzens isn’t albeit at a weird transitional phase where they’re out of the EU but also adhere to most of it’s shit, but mostly along the lines of “does this crash the economy” which convicting a murderrapist doesn’t really do.
Life sentences in the EU are sort of oddball shit in that they don’t ever actually sentence anyone to life. It’s a minimum-before-parole-eligible-sentence for humanitarion reasons (don’t @ me about this). At the time of conviction in the UK the maximum anyone ever got was legally 37 years but that was for premeditated murder, which the EU generally thinks of worse than a bunch of childremoved (don’t @ me about this).
I don’t wanna jump in the trenches for judges here at all but the responsible judge might well have figured with an earliest possible parole at age 64 and him being Ian Watkins and never making that one, his earliest release would’ve been at 74 at which point he’d probably be dead and you don’t have to drag this shit through the ECHR for a number of years
The UK does actually have “whole life orders,” which mean you will die in prison. Wayne Couzens, who murdered Sarah Everard, received this sentence. The UK also isn’t in the EU.
I didn’t want to get into the whole shebang of it just to point out that may well have been a politically affected judgement given the UKs rather special relationship to the EU while they were in it but there’s a reason the Wiki Article of Whole Life Order Prisoners segregates between before the ECHR stepped in and after. Ian Watkins 2013 conviction is very much within EU timeframe, Wayne Couzens isn’t albeit at a weird transitional phase where they’re out of the EU but also adhere to most of it’s shit, but mostly along the lines of “does this crash the economy” which convicting a murderrapist doesn’t really do.