List of prisoners with whole-life orders

Columns: Name | Year | Died | Notes
John Childs | 1979 | John Childs was convicted of the murder of six people in contract killings which were committed between 1974 and 1978 ; he implicated two others and they were convicted in 1980 , but they were released on appeal in 2003 after his evidence was called into question . He murdered Terence Eve in 1974 , Robert Brown in 1975 , George Brett and his 10-year-old son Terry Brett later on in 1975 , Fred Sherwood in 1978 and Ronald Andrews later on in 1978 and was jailed in December 1979 , with the murders being committed by shooting and stabbing . He confessed to a journalist in 1998 of five more murders while in prison , he appealed against his conviction in 2014 and his whole life sentence in 2016 but was rejected each time on account of his crimes being exceptionally serious | Dennis Nilsen | 1983 | 2018 | A civil servant and Army Veteran who murdered and dismembered 15 young men at his homes in North London , storing the body parts inside and around the residences . Nilsen was arrested after workmen investigating a blocked and odorous drain found human flesh . Nilsen 's trial judge originally recommended a 25-year minimum sentence in November 1983 , but successive Home Secretaries decided that he should never be released from prison . The November 2002 law lords ' ruling meant that Nilsen could have been released from prison as early as 2008 ; however , this did not transpire and he remained imprisoned until his death . Nilsen was also denied the right to publish his autobiography in addition to music and poetry from prison | Arthur Hutchinson | 1984 | - | A fugitive who in 1983 gatecrashed a wedding reception at a house in Sheffield shortly after the bride and groom had left and stabbed to death the bride 's father , mother and brother , before raping her sister at knifepoint . Police quickly labelled him as the killer after identifying a handprint on a champagne bottle and a bitemark in a piece of cheese . He was already on the run from answering a charge of violent rape and had previous convictions for offences of violence , indecent assault and dishonesty . He was convicted in 1984 and sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended minimum term of 18 years in September 1984 . However , he remains in prison more than 30 years on , having been issued with a whole-life tariff by the Home Secretary , Leon Brittan . Hutchinson has since appealed against this ruling twice through the High Court , but the court upheld the decision of the Home Secretary on both occasions , meaning he is likely to die in prison . Appeals to the European Court of Human Rights in February 2015 and January 2017 were also unsuccessful , with the court 's Grand Chamber ruling that whole life sentences could still be issued provided they were reviewed within 25 years | Kiernan Kelly | 1984 | 2001 ? | Irish vagrant from either Rathdowney or Dublin , was convicted of killing two people , his cellmate William Boyd and a vagrant called Hector Fisher , also confessed to killing 16 more people by pushing them to their deaths , which has led to skepticism . Very little media information is available about the crimes or the man himself , such as his birthplace , birthdate or even if he died in prison or is still alive , although it has been claimed that he died in prison in 2001 | Jeremy Bamber | 1986 | - | In October 1986 , he was found guilty of shooting dead his adoptive parents , sister and six-year-old twin nephews at the family farmhouse in Essex 14 months earlier , in order to claim a six-figure inheritance while also laying evidence to suggest his sister , a known schizophrenic , had committed the murders before killing herself . This was the police 's original line of inquiry and the media reported the deaths as a murder-suicide , but within weeks of the murders being committed the line of the police investigation had changed and Bamber was charged with five murders . His trial judge said in sentencing him that he found the idea of ever seeing Bamber free again difficult to foresee , and advised that he should serve at least 25 years behind bars before release could even be considered . Before the law lords ' ruling in November 2002 , Bamber was told by at least one Home Secretary that his life sentence would mean life . He has continued to protest his innocence but all appeals against his convictions have so far been unsuccessful | Victor Miller | 1988 | - | A predator who abducted , sexually assaulted and battered to death a 14-year-old boy from Hagley in Worcestershire in February 1988 . He confessed after being arrested for an unrelated crime soon afterwards and led detectives to the body . Police later revealed they believed Miller was responsible for almost 30 unsolved sexual assaults . In court later that year , he confessed openly to the killing and asked for the maximum sentence available . The trial judge who sentenced Miller in November 1988 recommended that Miller should serve at least 25 years in prison and could have been considered for parole in 2013. but Miller has since asked that the appropriate authorities not consider him for release at any point in the future , and therefore wishes to die in prison . Miller 's trial judge had also expressed doubt as to whether it would ever be safe to release him | John Duffy | 1988 | - | The Railway Killer , who attacked numerous women in the south of England , raping all of them and murdering three , before revolutionary psychological profiling helped police to catch him , although they got no nearer the accomplice they knew Duffy worked with . He initially sentenced to life with a recommended 30-year minimum sentence for two murders and seven rapes which could have seen him paroled in 2018 . However , at some stage afterwards , at least one home Secretary ruled that Duffy 's life sentence should mean life . After 12 years in prison , Duffy went on a conscience-clearing exercise , admitting to a third killing of which he had been originally acquitted , and implicating schoolfriend David Mulcahy as his accomplice . He also revealed his part in countless other rapes , for which he received a further 12 years . After Duffy gave evidence against him , Mulcahy was jailed for life for three murders and seven rapes in 2001 but is not believed to be among the prisoners who have been issued with a whole life tariff

Example questions:
What year did the inmate who was a prisoner with a whole-life order Imposed by Home Secretaries go to prison for the murdered kidnap victim Lesley Whittle ? | What year did the inmate who was a prisoner with a whole-life order Imposed by Home Secretaries die who was born March 16 , 1954 ?

Answers:
1976 | 2012