Killers can die in jail, judges say

Britain's most dangerous and notorious criminals can be kept behind bars for the rest of their lives, European judges have ruled.

Jeremy Bamber has been told being kept behind bars for the rest
of his life is not a breach of his human rights

Killer Jeremy Bamber and two other convicted murderers lost their appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that whole-life tariffs condemning prisoners to die in jail amounted to "inhuman or degrading treatment".

The whole-life tariff is not "grossly disproportionate" and in each case London's High Court had "decided that an all-life tariff was required, relatively recently and following a fair and detailed consideration", the judges ruled.

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