custodial

• what are the 4 types of sentences?

  -custodial

  -community

  -fines

  -discharges
• what are custodial sentences?

  most serious sentence
• if over 18 what offence can only have a mandatory sentence?

  murder
• what is the minimum term served known as?

  tariff
• what is the minimum tariff before release on licence for mandatory sentences?

  12 years- whole life
• who are whole life orders mainly for?

  serious / persistent offenders
• give the 2 examples of offenders who got whole life orders

  -Bellfield 2008

  -Dennehy 2014
• what law established the mandatory life sentence for the killers of emergency service workers?

  Harpers law 2022
• what are the different types of custodial sentences?

  -mandatory sentence

  -discretionary sentence

  -indeterminate sentence

  -suspended sentence
• what is a mandatory sentence?

  one with no flexibility
• what is a discretionary sentence?

  a fixed amount of time to serve where judge has discretion
• what is a indeterminate sentence?

  court sets minimum time to serve before being eligible for release by parole board
• what is a suspended sentence?

  custodial sentence does not take effect immediately (or at all) as long as D doesn't commit another offence
• how do suspended sentences work?

  -court imposes sentence that would be from 14 days - 2 years

  -court then suspends it for up to 2 years
• how many life orders was Levi Bellfield given?

  2
• what did Levi Bellfield do?

  killed 13 year old girl & 2 other women, raped & assaulted
• what did Joanna Dennehey do?

  murdered 3 men & attempted murder of 2 other men
• what was Joanna Dennehy's sentence?

  life in prison