Jail term of Luton triple-murderer to be reviewed after MP's referral

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Shadow justice minister claims Nicholas Prosper's life sentence with minimum of 49 years is unduly lenient - www.theguardian.com

The jail term given to a man who murdered his mother and two siblings as part of a plan to kill 30 children is to be reviewed after an intervention by an MP who claimed it was unduly lenient. Nicholas Prosper, 19, was jailed for life last month with a minimum term of 49 years after he admitted murdering Juliana Falcon, 48, Kyle Prosper, 16, and Giselle Prosper, 13. The murders were part of his wider plan to storm a morning assembly at his former primary school with a shotgun and "cause the biggest massacre of the 21st century".

The attorney general's office confirmed on Wednesday that the sentence had been referred to the court of appeal. It comes after the Conservative shadow justice minister Kieran Mullan referred the sentence to the attorney general's office under the unduly lenient sentence scheme on the day Prosper was jailed. "It will be argued that Prosper.



.. Ben Quinn.