Murderers lose whole-life challenge

Two murderers have lost challenges against orders that they can never be released from prison.

Jamie Reynolds, a “sexual deviant” who lured a teenage girl to her death, and former soldier Anwar Rosser, who savagely killed a child, had their cases rejected by three judges at the Court of Appeal in London.

The ruling was made today by Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas, Mr Justice Wyn Williams and Mr Justice Sweeney.

The court announced in both cases that there was “no basis on which it can properly be argued that a whole-life order was not required”.

The punishment handed out for the “horrific” murders was “just”, said Lord Thomas.

Rosser, now 34, who admitted murdering four-year-old Riley Turner in a “savage and gratuitous” attack, was handed a whole-life tariff by a judge at Bradford Crown Court in February.

He was staying the night at the boy’s home in Keighley, West Yorkshire, in January last year when he stabbed and strangled the “happy and bubbly” child as he lay in his bed.

Stafford Crown Court was told by prosecutor David Crigman QC that Reynolds carried out a ”scripted, sadistic and sexually-motivated murder” and planned the killing meticulously.

He described Reynolds as a manipulative individual and ”a sexual deviant” who had ”a morbid fascination in pornography depicting violence towards young women in a sexual context since at least 2008”.

Sentencing Reynolds, Mr Justice Wilkie said he agreed with a psychiatric report that he ”had the potential to progressing to become a serial killer”.

He duped Miss Williams, 17, into going to his home for a photo-shoot, but he killed her. A post-mortem examination showed she died of asphyxia as a result of pressure to the neck, probably caused by a ligature.

Her body was eventually found in a stream in remote woodland near Wrexham.

His appeal centred on the amount of credit to be given in relation to his age and guilty plea.

In Rosser’s case, the appeal judges were urged to find that a whole-life term was “manifestly excessive”, and that a “very long” finite minimum term should have been imposed instead

Both appeals were contested by the prosecution.

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Murderers lose whole-life challenge