A "monster" who stabbed a supermarket worker to death in front of horrified shoppers has had his minimum jail term reduced. Neville Hord, 45, killed Jodie Willsher, 30, in a frenzied knife attack which he had planned over two weeks because he blamed her for his break-up with her mother. Malcolm Willsher (centre) takes the coffin of his wife, Jodie, who was stabbed to death as she worked in a supermarket, in to Christ Church in Skipton ahead of her funeral. Photo: PA -> 14-year-old boy killed as van hits teenagers in Colton He admitted murder and was jailed for life at Bradford Crown Court in March, with Judge Jonathan Durham Hall ordering him to serve at least 30 years behind bars. But his minimum term was cut to 27 years on Tuesday by judges sitting at the Court of Appeal in London.
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In Singapore he would have hanged, of course, as a matter of course. (That is why their murder rate borders on being trivial. No excuses - you kill - you face the hangman at Changi Jail. In the 20th Century, in England, only one in sixteen killers was ever executed up to 1964.)
Our system does not even have the potential for justice.
Her family MUST forgive him but there is no such scriptural enjoinder on our criminal 'justice' system.
