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