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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Callum Parke

Double murderer who stabbed pregnant girlfriend 23 times given whole life order after sentence ruled too lenient

Double murderer Shaine March, who stabbed his pregnant girlfriend to death while on licence for a previous murder, has been handed a whole life order after Court of Appeal judges ruled his sentence was “unduly lenient”.

March, then 47, was jailed for at least 42 years in October 2025 after admitting the murder of his girlfriend, Alana Odysseos.

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