Sentence examples for minimum term to from inspiring English sources

In February 1997, Jenkins was convicted of murdering his foster daughter Billie-Jo, 13, and sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum term to be served of 25 years.

At the court of appeal on Tuesday, three judges said that a life sentence was justified, but reduced the length of the minimum term to 14 years less time on remand.

He said they were satisfied the aggravating factors in the case would have set the minimum term to one in excess of 30 years had there not been a guilty plea.

Two of the most notorious criminals in the country are back in the news, but it is not possible to consider either Jon Venables breaking the terms of his parole or Peter Sutcliffe asking for his minimum term to be set without asking if there's any place in modern incarceration for the life-that-means-life sentence.

Another change that places the same emphasis on the importance of judicial discretion is the proposal to simplify provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, which lay down a detailed and complicated framework controlling the way a judge must fix the minimum term to be served on a mandatory life sentence on conviction for murder.

"It is not, in my opinion, open to a judge setting a minimum term to go behind the verdict of the jury by concluding that, although the defendant's responsibility was not proved to have been substantially diminished, he should be given the benefit of the doubt for the purpose of setting the minimum term, by concluding it might have been," he said in his ruling.

Two of Mr. Davies's co-defendants are pleading guilty, agreeing to five-year minimum terms, to avoid stiffer sentences.

Two other rapists were given minimum terms to replace their whole life tariffs.

After a three-week trial, Mr. Bout was convicted of conspiring to kill American nationals, as well as officers and employees of the United States; to acquire and use anti-aircraft missiles (the count that carries the mandatory 25-year minimum term); and to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.

Sutcliffe applied to have a minimum term set to his sentence, but in 2010, the high court ruled that he would spend the rest of his life in prison.

He subsequently stabbed in the eye Roy Whiting, the killer of eight-year-old Sarah Payne, and was a couple of weeks ago given an indefinite sentence with a notional five-year minimum jail term to serve in addition to his whole-life sentence.