28/02/2014

Life Sentence For Joanna Dennehy

Joanna Dennehy, 31, had admitted to killing Lukasz Slaboszewski, 31, Kevin Lee, 48 and 56-year-old John Chapman in the Peterborough area in March last year. She was also found guilty of the attempted murders of two other men in Hereford.

Mr Justice Spencer, speaking at the Old Bailey on Friday, referred to Dennehy, who is a mother of two, as "a pathological liar".

He added: "The death and destruction for which you are responsible, has caused untold distress to the families of the men you murdered and to the men you attacked."

He handed down a life sentence.

(JP)

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