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.
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.