Meet the killers who will die behind bars – as Christopher Halliwell joins the list of murderers jailed for LIFE
DOUBLE murderer Christopher Halliwell joins a lengthy list of British killers serving whole life tariffs - where "life means life" and they will die behind bars with no chance of parole.
The 52-year-old was today caged for killing Becky Godden in 2003 - having already been given a life sentence for the 2011 murder of Sian O'Callaghan - making him the 64th serving prisoner in the UK who will never be released.
The Ministry of Justice has confirmed 55 "whole lifers" are serving in UK prisons while a further nine are being kept in secure hospital units such as Broadmoor.
In 1995 Rosemary West was convicted of murdering ten women and girls at her home in Gloucester with deranged husband Fred West.
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When moors murderer Myra Hindley died in 2002 West was the only woman left on the whole life tariff register.
Her husband Fred killed himself before he was due to go on trial.
Hindley's partner Ian Brady is still serving his whole life tariff after he was convicted of murdering three children between 1963 and 1965.
The pair buried the children in shallow graves on Saddleworth Moor in Greater Manchester.
Brady is being held in a secure unit at Ashworth Hospital in Liverpool.
Joanna Dennehy, described as "arguably the most dangerous female prisoner in custody", is also serving a whole life tariff.
She was sentenced at the Old Bailey in February 2014 for murdering three men and stabbing two others.
The judge also dubbed her a "cruel, calculating, selfish and manipulative serial killer".
Dennehy murdered three men in seemingly random attacks and dumped their bodies in ditches just outside Peterborough.
In 2013 cop killer Dale Cregan was jailed for murdering female Greater Manchester Police officers Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone in a grenade and gun attack.
He also pleaded guilty to murdering two members of the same family in 2012.
Notorious serial killer Robert Maudsley was dubbed "Hannibal the Cannibal" after he allegedly ate the brains of one of three men he killed in prison.
He was initially jailed for killing one man and has been locked up since 1977.
Most of his whole life tariff has been served in solitary confinement.
Peter Sutcliffe murdered 13 women between 1975 and 1980 in West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester.
He was caught by chance while sitting in a car with a prostitute and potential victim in Sheffield in January 1981.
Dubbed the "Yorkshire Ripper" he was initially held in a traditional prison but was then transferred to Broadmoor Hospital.
He was given a whole life tariff in 2010 before being moved to HM Prison Frankland in Durham in August this year.
In 1990 Victor Castigador was given a whole life tariff after leading a gang of robbers in a revenge attack at a London restaurant.
Four people were locked in a cage and doused in white spirit before being set on fire.
Two of them died.
Castigador was charged with murder again in June this year after a murdering an inmate.
He has pleaded guilty to battering his child killer Sidonio Teixeria to death with a rock in a workshop at top-security Long Lartin jail.
Levi Bellfield killed two women and seriously attacked another between February 2003 and August 2004.
After he was convicted of those murders he became the prime suspect in the unsolved case of Amanda "Milly" Dowler, whose body was found in Hampshire in September 2002.
He was charged three days later and was found guilty in 2011.
A judge slapped him with a whole life order.
In 2014 Michael Adebolajo was handed the same sentence for the horrific murder of British Army soldier Lee Rigby.
Rigby was attacked and killed by Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale near the the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, South East London.
Adebowale was given a 45-year-sentence which means he will be 67 when he is released.
Dennis Nilsen, known as the "Muswell Hill Murderer", was a former policeman who murdered and dismembered 15 young boys at his North London homes.
He was arrested after workmen investigated a blocked drain and discovered human flesh.
A 25-year-sentence was initially handed down but successive Home Secretaries have said he should never be released.
Steve Wright, the "Suffolk strangler", was handed a whole life tariff for murdering five prostitutes whose bodies were found in Ipswich in 2006.
Mark Bridger was found guilty of murdering and abducting and murdering five-year-old April Jones who was last seen in October 2012.
April's body has never been found but her DNA profile, bone fragments, and blood were found in Bridger's house.
He was handed a life sentence in 2013 on the recommendation he should never be released.
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