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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Matthew Weaver

Man who murdered pregnant girlfriend has 42-year term increased to whole-life order

Mugshot of Shaine March
Shaine March appealed against the original 42-year sentence for being ‘manifestly excessive’. Photograph: Metropolitan police/PA

A man who murdered his pregnant girlfriend after being released from prison on licence must spend the rest of his life in jail, the court of appeal has ruled after finding that the original 42-year sentence was “too lenient”.

Alana Odysseos, 32, was in the early stages of pregnancy with her third child when Shaine March, now 48, killed her at her home in Walthamstow, east London, in July last year. She died at the scene from 23 slash and stab wounds.

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