Zara Aleena’s aunt calls for law change after murderer’s sentence cut

Farah Naz said the reduction sent a ‘disheartening’ message to women that their ‘suffering will not be accounted for’. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA

The aunt of Zara Aleena has called for the law to be changed after her niece’s murderer won an appeal to reduce the minimum term of his life sentence.

Farah Naz said her family were “extremely disappointed” by the court of appeal’s decision to reduce Jordan McSweeney’s minimum prison term from 38 to 33 years and questioned why the sentencing judge had been overruled by review judges.