Changes in the law which will hopefully see safer streets due to more stringent sentences for the worst offenders have came into force today - with whole life orders among the new measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts acts.
Whole-life orders will now be the most severe punishment available at the UK criminal justice system's disposal as a starting point for pre-meditated child murder.
Mandatory life sentences for the unlawful killing of emergency workers, as well as ending the automatic early release of offenders deemed dangerous to the public are also part of the act, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying that the reforms aim to 'make our streets safer'.
