• Telling killers they have no hope of release ruled unlawful by judges
• Raises prospect of dozens of prisoners demanding review of sentence
• Puts UK government on collision course with Strasbourg
• Jeremy Bamber, Douglas Vinter and Peter Moore made human rights claim
• Bamber killed parents, sister and her two children in Essex in 1985

Ordering Britain's most notorious murderers to spend the rest of their lives behind bars breaches their human rights, European judges ruled today.

Dozens of killers could launch bids for freedom after judges in Strasbourg ruled locking them up without any prospect of being released was unlawful.

The extraordinary legal challenge was brought by murderer Jeremy Bamber and two other killers, Douglas Vinter and Peter Moore, who claim that condemning them to spend the rest of their lives behind bars without a review is cruel, inhuman and degrading.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2358669/Jailing-Britains-notorious-murderers-forever-breaches-THEIR-human-rights-European-court-rules.html#ixzz2YXkVjtcn

In that case they should reinstate the death penalty but not rule out the chances of resurrection.

In that case they should reinstate the death penalty but not rule out the chances of resurrection.

Agreed - but if this is not acceptable, then allow them to choose one of three alternatives :-

Hanging

Review after 25 years, with a monthly flogging

Full life tariff.

That way they will have chosen their punishment themselves. No appeal allowed.

But seriously, this ECHR is far too lenient in almost all it's judgements. The British governemnt should draw up a sensible Bill of rights to put before the public and then withdraw from the ECHR. It is not dispensing justice, it is merely a creature of the PC people, who themselves usually grow more sensible as they grow older. (Peter Hain no longer digs up cricket pitches where groundsmen have spent months getting them just right for Test matches. He is now trying to reform the British political system and save Ed Milliband from oblivion)

Former Labour cabinet minister Peter Hain said that the party needs to connect with the wider community rather than just with affiliated union members.

Mr Hain said: "What Ed has always been clear about is the party politics, the existing party political model, of which Labour is an example but so are the Conservatives and the Lib Dems, is bust. It doesn’t work anymore. Where as we used to have huge links into the outside communities in many ways those have disappeared."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/10168134/Ed-Milibands-reforms-attacked-by-union-boss-Billy-Hayes.html

The lunatics are running the asylum.

A fig for the European court!

If the whole European apparatus wants to force Britain out of the EC, it is going the right way.... again and again and again.

That whole DM article is misleading and dishonest - but what else would you expect? The ECHR said that their cases have to be reviewed periodically and suggest a figure of 25 years which apparently is common elsewhere. It doesn't say they have to be released if they're not considered suitable.

Give them an automatic review for release on their 95th birthday.

Problem solved.

Give them an automatic review for release on their 95th birthday.

Problem solved.

That could be interpreted as an instruction to the prison authorities to keep the convict alive until he's 95, so that the review could be implemented. That's the way our Home Office seems to work these days.

I would suggest that the guys are put in general population and made to take six showers a day.