PART 7Sentencing and release
CHAPTER 1Custodial sentences
Life sentences: time to be served
I1125Whole life order as starting point for premeditated child murder
In Schedule 21 to the Sentencing Code (minimum terms in mandatory life sentences), in paragraph 2(2), after paragraph (b) insert—
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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,