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2(1)If—
(a)the court considers that the seriousness of the offence (or the combination of the offence and one or more offences associated with it) is exceptionally high, and
(b)the offender was aged 21 or over when the offence was committed,
the appropriate starting point is a whole life order.
(2)Cases that would normally fall within sub-paragraph (1)(a) include—
(a)the murder of two or more persons, where each murder involves any of the following—
(i)a substantial degree of premeditation or planning,
(ii)the abduction of the victim, or
(iii)sexual or sadistic conduct,
(b)the murder of a child if involving the abduction of the child or sexual or sadistic motivation,
(c)the murder of a police officer or prison officer in the course of his or her duty, where the offence was committed on or after 13 April 2015,
(d)a murder done for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, racial or ideological cause, or
(e)a murder by an offender previously convicted of murder.
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