No cut in sentence for wife killer
Thursday 21st June 2007, 11:50AM BST.
A Telford murderer will still have to serve a full 14 years behind bars despite making remarkable efforts to improve himself, a judge said today.
Mr Justice Wilkie today ruled that Andrew Leedham will not be freed early even though he has used his time behind bars to write a software programme now used in 25 prisons.
The judge ruled Leedham’s “remarkable” efforts to improve himself were not “so exceptional” that his parole date should be brought forward.
Leedham was jailed for life in November 1998 for murdering his former model wife Elizabeth Leedham and attempting to murder her lover Dr Duncan Billson.
The then 48-year-old, of Leegomery, Telford, stabbed to death his 36-year-old wife of one year, who had left him for Dr Bilson.
He burst in on the couple in the bedroom of Dr Billson’s home, in Parkside, Stafford, on October 20 1997, stabbing his wife once through the heart before turning the blade on Dr Billson.
Today, after reviewing the case at London’s Royal Courts of Justice, Mr Justice Wilkie ruled Leedham must serve a minimum 14 years for the murder.
The ruling means he can ask the Parole Board to release him in October 2011.
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Write a software programme and leave jail !!! Get real people – in my world he would have received the death penalty !!!
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