Love of Blood--The True Story of Notorious Serial Killer Joanne Dennehy by Christopher Berry-Dee

Author:Christopher Berry-Dee [Christopher Berry-Dee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784182885
Publisher: John Blake Publishing
Published: 2015-10-20T04:00:00+00:00

JOANNE DENNEHY

First you, Joanne Dennehy. For murder there is only one sentence, life imprisonment. But I am required to determine the minimum term you must serve. Parliament has laid down different starting points for the minimum term, depending upon the seriousness and circumstances of the case. In your case only two starting points could conceivably be appropriate, either a whole life order or a term of 30 years. If the latter, the gravity of your offending is such that the minimum term would have to be very substantially in excess of 30 years.

The issue in your case, therefore, is whether or not there should be a whole life order. Any question as to the lawfulness of such a sentence has been dispelled by the recent judgment of the Court of Appeal in the case of McLoughlin [2014] EWCA Crim 188. My duty is to apply the provisions of paragraph 4 of schedule 21 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003, and to consider whether the seriousness of the offence (or the combination of the offence and one or more offences associated with it) is exceptionally high. If the seriousness is exceptionally high, the appropriate starting point is a whole life order. Paragraph 4(2) provides that cases that would normally fall within this category include the murder of two or more persons where each murder involves a substantial degree of premeditation or planning, or the abduction of the victim, or sexual or sadistic conduct.

For the reasons I have already explained, I am quite sure that each of these three murders did involve a substantial degree of premeditation or planning. I am sure on the evidence that you lured your first victim Lukasz Slaboszewski to 11 Rolleston Garth specifically in order to kill him. I am quite sure on all the evidence that you murdered John Chapman not on the spur of the moment because he had been watching you in the bath but because by then you had got a taste for murder and, as you had told him, you were prepared to do whatever it would take to get him out of the house. I am quite sure that you lured Kevin Lee to 11 Rolleston Garth that Friday specifically in order to kill him. I am also quite sure that his was a murder which involved sexual and sadistic conduct on your part. It is true that there is no medical evidence at post mortem of sexual interference, but the whole circumstances of the killing bear out what he told his friend he was expecting, namely that you were going to dress him up and rape him. You admitted as much to Georgina Page. The way in which his body was dumped was part of the playing out of your sexual and sadistic motivation.

Quite apart from meeting the threshold of seriousness in the examples given in paragraph 4, there were other aggravating features to these three murders. First, each of them involved stabbing with a knife or knives that you took to the scene for that very purpose, even if only within the same building.

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