A whole-life order was also handed down in January to double murderer Steve Sansom, for the “bloodthirsty” killing of Sarah Mayhew, when he was out of prison on life licence for another murder. Other criminals sentenced to whole-life orders in recent years include necrophiliac David Fuller, and Ali Harbi Ali, who murdered MP Sir David Amess. Gun fanatic Louis De Zoysa was handed a whole-life order in July 2023 after shooting Metropolitan Police custody sergeant Matt Ratana while handcuffed in a police cell in 2020. Milly Dowler’s killer, Levi Bellfield, is serving two whole-life orders – for her murder, the killings of Marsha McDonnell and Amelie Delagrange, and the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy. Manchester Arena bomb plotter Hashem Abedi, who was convicted of conspiring with his suicide-bomber brother Salman Abedi over the 2017 atrocity, avoided a whole-life order because he was 21 at the time.