Whole-life orders: Sentence that means criminals are likely to die behind bars
by Callum Parke
Dec 20, 2023
2 minutes
Lawrence Bierton has joined some of the country’s most dangerous offenders who are expected to die behind bars after being given a whole-life order for the murder of Pauline Quinn.
Bierton, 63, was on licence from a life sentence for two murders committed in 1995 when he bludgeoned his elderly neighbour, Pauline Quinn, to death with a coffee table at her Nottinghamshire home on November 9 2021.
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