Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32)

PART 7 U.K. Sentencing and release

CHAPTER 1 U.K. Custodial sentences

Life sentences: time to be served U.K.

125 Whole life order as starting point for premeditated child murder E+W

In Schedule 21 to the Sentencing Code (minimum terms in mandatory life sentences), in paragraph 2(2), after paragraph (b) insert—

“(ba) the murder of a child involving a substantial degree of premeditation or planning, where the offence was committed on or after the day on which section 125 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 came into force,”.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 125 in force at 28.6.2022, see s. 208(5)(l)