By Rowena Mason Deputy political editor
Policy is one of a number of Conservative election promises concerning tougher sentencing
Adults who commit the premeditated murder of a child will be given tougher sentences of life without parole under plans due to be included in the Conservative party’s manifesto.
Robert Buckland, the justice secretary, said it was his aim to stop the parents of murdered children seeing the “sickening” spectacle of their killers walking free.
Source: Tories pledge whole life term for premeditated murder of a child
