As Thomas Mair joins list of killers jailed for LIFE – meet the murderers who will die in prison
NAZI-obsessed Thomas Mair has become the latest British murderer to be given a whole life tariff after he butchered Labour MP Jo Cox in broad daylight.
The white supremacist, 52, was sent down after he was branded "no patriot" by a judge at the Old Bailey.
Mair stabbed and shot Labour MP Jo Cox and left her to die in the street of her Batley and Spen constituency in West Yorkshire.
The far-right loner joins 67 others - including two women - serving sentences where "life means life" and they will die behind bars.
Arthur Simpson-Kent
In December last year Arthur Simpson-Kent murdered his partner Sian Blake and their two sons at their home in Erith London.
He fled to Ghana but was caught and brought back to the UK.
He was given a whole life sentence after pleading guilty to the murders.
Christopher Halliwell
In September this year 52-year-old Christopher Halliwell was caged for killing Becky Godden in 2003 - having already been given a life sentence for the 2011 murder of Sian O'Callaghan.
The taxi driver confessed to killing Miss O'Callaghan and took police to her body before offering "another one" and leading them to where he had buried missing prostitute Becky Godden years earlier.
Rosemary West
In 1995 Rosemary West was convicted of murdering ten women and girls at her home in Gloucester with deranged husband Fred West.
Her husband Fred killed himself before he was due to go on trial.
When moors murderer Myra Hindley died in 2002, West was the only woman left on the whole life tariff register.
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Ian Brady
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
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.
Dale Cregan
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.
Robert Maudsley
Notorious serial killer Robert Maudsley was dubbed "Hannibal the Cannibal" after he allegedly ate the brain 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
Yorkshire Ripper 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.
He was initially 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.
Jamie Reynolds
In 2013 Jamie Reynolds pleaded guilty to murdering policeman's daughter Georgia Williams in May 2013.
He dumped her body in North Wales and was arrested by police in Glasgow a few days later.
Steven Wright
Steve Wright, the "Suffolk strangler", murdered five prostitutes whose bodies were found in Ipswich in December 2006.
He was given a whole life tariff in 2008.
Victor Castigador
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
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.
Michael Adebolajo
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
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.
Mark Bridger
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.
John Childs
Contract killer John Childs was handed a whole life tariff in 1979 for murdering six people between 1974 and 1978.
He implicated two others who were convicted in 1980 but they were released in 2003 after his evidence was called into question.
Arthur Hutchinson
Arthur Hutchinson was handed a whole life sentence in 1984 after gatecrashing a wedding in Sheffield shortly after the bride and groom had left.
He murdered the bride's father, mother, and brother before raping her sister at knifepoint.
Hutchinson was quickly identified as the killer through a handprint on the wall and a bite mark he left in some cheese.
Jeremy Bamber
Jeremy Bamber slaughtered his adoptive parents, his adoptive sister and her twin sons in August 1985 in Essex.
The bloodbath came to be known as the White House Farm murders.
Bamber is serving a whole life sentence after he was convicted of the shootings in 1986.
He carried out the killings to claim a six-figure inheritance.
Anthony Entwistle
Rapist and murderer Anthony Entwistle is serving a whole life tariff after he abducted a girl from a towpath before sexually abusing her and strangling her to death with a T-shirt.
He murdered Michelle Calvy just 18 days after his early release from a 10-year sentence for rape in 1980.
He was jailed for the Blackburn killing in 1987.
Victor Miller
Victor Miller abducted 14-year-old Stuart Gough in Hagley, Worcestershire, before sexually assaulting him and beating him to death.
He was given a whole life tariff in 1988 after confessing to the murder and leading cops to Gough's body.
John Duffy
Serial sex attacker and murderer John Duffy raped numerous woman in the south of England and murdered three.
Despite being given a whole life tariff a legal ruling has since meant he could be considered for release in 2018.
Anthony Arkwright
Yorkshire murderer Anthony Arkwright went on a two-day killing spree in August 1988 when he was just 21.
He murdered three people including his own grandfather and was given a whole life tariff in 1989.
Mark Robinson
Mark Robinson was locked up for killing 17-year-old Patricia Anne Wagner when she threatened to reveal they were having an affair.
He was released in 1989 and started a new relationship with Sharon Morley.
Robinson stabbed her to death after a row when he discovered a photo of her ex boyfriend.
Malcolm Green
Double killer Malcolm Green was locked up for life for murdering a Cardiff prostitute in 1971.
He was released in 1989 and bludgeoned to death a young New Zealand tourist.
Green is serving a whole life tariff.
Peter Moore
In 1996 Peter Moore was jailed for life for murdering four men in sexually motivated attacks.
He admitted it to police but blamed the killings on a fictional lover called Jason during his trial.
Paul Glen
In 2004 hitman Paul Glen was employed to murder Vincent Smart but accidentally killed his friend Robert Bogle.
After his trial it emerged he already had a previous conviction for murder.
He was handed a whole life tariff.
Phillip Heggarty
Phillip Heggarty murdered his friend in a hammer attack in 2003.
He later dumped the body in a car and set fire to it.
His victim Derek Bennett's body was so badly burned he could only be identified by dental records.
Thomas McDowell
Thomas McDowell was convicted of murdering German trainee rabbi Andreas Hinz in 2003.
Hinz had spent the night alone drinking in a gay bar before McDowell struck up a conversation with him.
They returned to McDowell's flat where the killer knocked him out with a kick to the chest and cut his body up with a saw.
He was jailed for life in 2004.
Mark Martin
Mark Martin killed three homeless women in Nottingham between December 2004 and January 2005.
He later revealed he wanted to become the city's first ever serial killer.
Martin was dubbed the "Sneinton Strangler".
Mark Hobson
Spree murderer Mark Hobson was arrested after an eight-day nationwide manhunt in 2004.
He had killed four people in North Yorkshire and was "Britain's most wanted man"
His victims included his girlfriend and her twin sister.
William Horncy and Kenneth Regan
In 2005 William Horncy was jailed for life after he was convicted of killing millionaire businessman Amarjit Chohan, his wife, mother-in-law, and two sons.
Their bodies were never found.
Kenneth Regan worked alongside Horncy and was also given a whole life sentence in 2005.
Glynn Dix
The same year Glynn Dix was jailed for life for murdering his wife Hazel and chopping her body up into 16 pieces.
He was out on licence after being imprisoned for a murdering in the 1970s.
Viktor Dembovskis
A year later in 2006 a Latvian immigrant raped and murdered a 17-year-old female neighbour in west London.
Viktor Dembovskis had a string of convictions stretching back 25 years in his home country.
He was given a whole life sentence despite never having murdered anyone.
John McGrady
In the same year rapist and murderer John McGrady was locked up for life.
McGrady strangled and mutilated a girl in Catford, London, before dumping her body parts in bin bags.
Stephen McColl
Underworld Figure Stephen McColl was an informer for Greater Manchester Police before he was found guilty of two murders.
He murdered fellow gang member Michael Doran and killed Philip Noakes after he humiliated him in public.
Rahan Arshad
A year later in 2007 Rahan Arshad was given a whole life tariff for murdering his wife and three children in Greater Manchester.
Andrew Randall
Andrew Randall from Northamptonshire was given the same sentence that year for murdering his seven-week-old daughter Jessica in 2005.
David Tiley
David Tiley murdered his disabled fiancee and her carer in Southampton just two months after he was released from prison for double rape.
He was jailed in 2007.
Michael Smith
In the same year Michael Smith was given a life sentence for killing someone in a bottle attack.
Smith had already served a life sentence for murdering his fiancee in 1970.
Douglas Vinter
In 2008 Douglas Vinter strangled and murdered his wife Anne White in Normanby, Teesside.
He was already on life licence having spent nine years in prison for a previous murder in the mid 1990s.
Marc Chivers
In December 2008 Marc Chivers strangled his girlfriend to death with a dog lead.
He pleaded guilty in 2009 and was given a whole life tariff.
He had already served time in Germany for murdering an ex-girlfriend.
Royston Jackson
In 2010 Royston Jackson was convicted of murdering sex offender Gordon Boon.
He had been released on licence two years earlier for a murder he committed in 1989.
Peter Tobin
In 2009 Peter Tobin was convicted of the murder of Dinah McNicol in Margate, Kent, in 1991.
He had already been convicted of Vicky Hamilton whose body was found next to McNicol's in his garden.
He also murdered Angelika Kluk in a Glasgow church in 2006.
Tobin was sentenced to life for the killings.
Ernest Wright
In 2010 Ernest Wright was found guilty of shooting Neville Corby, 42, dead with a shotgun.
He also tried to kill Corby's partner.
He had already served 26 years in prison for a murder in 1976.
Anthony Hardy
In the same year Anthony Hardy - the Camden Ripper - killed three women to "satisfy his depraved and perverted needs".
Cops believe he may have killed six others but the cases have not yet been brought to court.
John Maden
In 2010 John Maden was convicted of drugging, raping, and murdering his 12-year-old niece at his home in Manchester.
He phoned police and told them he murdered her "because he felt like it".
Desmond Lee
Desmond Lee was was convicted in 2010 of murdering his gay lover Christopher Pratt.
He used his credit cards to go on a shopping spree before dumping his body.
Wilbert Dyce
Wilbert Dyce was jailed for life in the same year for murdering a mother and her two daughters.
He tried to throw police off the scent by making it look like a racially motivated attack.
Stephen Griffiths
In 2010 Stephen Griffiths gained notoriety as the "Crossbow Cannibal" after he murdered three women - one of them with a crossbow.
He has claimed to have partially eaten his victims but this has not been proven.
John Sweeney
A year later John Sweeney was given a whole life sentence for murdering, mutilating, and dumping two women's lifeless bodies in canals in London and Holland.
George Norman Johnson
In 2011 George Norman Johnson was convicted of the premeditated murder of 89-year-old Florence Habesch to feed his drug addiction.
He had already served 20 years of a life sentence imposed in 1986 for murdering a man whose house he was burgling.
John Cooper
The same year John Cooper was convicted of the double murder of a brother and sister in 1985 and a couple in 1989.
He appeared on TV shows Bullseye in 1989 and was subsequently dubbed the Bullseye Killer.
David Baxendale
In 2011 David Baxendale was convicted of repeatedly stabbing a woman in Nuffield, Surrey, the year before
Violent David Baxendale, who had a fetish for knives, beat and stabbed mum-of-three Sarah Thomas to death after she refused him a kiss just a few hours after they met.
He had previously been jailed for a murder in Spain before being deported back to Britain.
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