Killers have sentence cut

Two Shropshire men jailed for life for battering a Telford grandfather to death have won an appeal to cut their prison sentences after top judges ruled the murder was not "sadistic". Two Shropshire men jailed for life for battering a Telford grandfather to death have won an appeal to cut their prison sentences after top judges ruled the murder was not "sadistic". Michael Boland, 37, and Tony Tinsley, 28, were convicted of the murder of Gerry McAndrew in June last year. The body of the 47-year-old Irishman was dumped in Dale End Park in Ironbridge in July 2005. Boland, pictured, of Westbourne, Woodside, claimed he had been provoked by Mr McAndrew's singing of Irish songs in the The Dolphin pub earlier in the evening. The minimum tariffs they must serve have now been cut by three years. Read the full story in the Shropshire Star