- Double murderer Shaine March has been handed a whole life order by the Court of Appeal after judges ruled his previous sentence for killing his pregnant girlfriend, Alana Odysseos, was "unduly lenient".
- March, who was on licence for a previous murder, stabbed 32-year-old Ms Odysseos 23 times at her home in Walthamstow, east London, while she was pregnant with her third child.
- He was initially jailed for a minimum of 42 years in October 2025 after admitting her murder, but the Solicitor General referred the case to the Court of Appeal, arguing for a whole life order.
- The Court of Appeal judges quashed the original sentence and substituted it with a whole life order, meaning March will never be released from prison.
- March had previously fatally stabbed 17-year-old Andre Drummond in 2000 and was released on life licence in 2013, only to be recalled later that year for assaulting another pregnant girlfriend.
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