Tia Sharp

Been following the Tia Sharp and April Jones cases for the past couple of weeks. Stuart Hazell has always denied having anything to do with Tia's murder despite the overwhelming evidence (no broken neck, conversations with prison wardens and memory cards of Tia sleeping/child pornography) suggesting otherwise, he has now just changed his plea to guilty. How does this affect his sentencing because he has done it part way through the trial? Wonder if Mark Bridger will do the same?

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hes getting life no matter what, time set at tariff is irrelevant, he will always be on a licence and able to be recalled to prison no matter what. I would think that any parole board is going to be very cautious releasing him and he will go post tariff
 
Stuart Hazell has been jailed for a minimum 38 years for killing his partner's granddaughter, Tia Sharp.

The 37-year-old had denied murder, however on the fifth day of his trial at the Old Bailey he changed his plea.

The court heard Hazell sexually assaulted and murdered Tia, 12, at her grandmother's house in south London.

Judge Justice Nicol said he could not impose a whole life tariff as he was not sure Hazell's motivation was sexual or that it was pre-meditated.
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So much for life but 38 minimum sounds worse than some of the life sentences you see in other high profile cases e.g. life with a minimum of 15/20 years etc.

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Mark Bridger next.
 
Was there not a sex toy with her blood/DNA found? Child porn and a picture of her dead naked body. Sounds sexual to me.
 
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38 out in 15? :(
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Life sentences work differently to others. You serve the entire time stated with zero chance of early release. If a parole board releases you when you've served the tariff (and there's no guarantee they will) you are under licence for the rest of your life and can be recalled to prison at any time.
 
By breaking certain conditions?

I have never quite understood this system but feel a lot of it is to do with how the media portray the sentence and our (including me) lack of understanding.
 
I suspect that depends on what crime you are convicted of. The parole board set the terms of your parole and if you break them you're back behind bars.
 
he could not be given a whole life term, so the Judge gave him the next best thing,

min 38 years before consideration of parole,

he will never see the light of day, animal
 
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