A hearing to decide whether triple murderer Nicholas Prosper’s sentence should be increased to a whole-life order has begun at the Court of Appeal.
Prosper, 19, would become the first person aged between 18 and 20 to be given a whole-life tariff if three senior judges rule that his sentence should be raised.
He was jailed in March for a minimum term of 49 years, less 188 days already spent in custody, after admitting killing his mother, Juliana Falcon, 48, and siblings Giselle Prosper, 13, and Kyle Prosper, 16, at their family flat in Luton, Bedfordshire, on September 13 2023.
He also admitted weapons charges after plotting a mass shooting at his former primary school in the town.
The Solicitor General referred his sentence to the Court of Appeal as “unduly lenient”, with barrister Tom Little KC, for the Solicitor General, stating the case was “exceptional”.
The hearing before the Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr, Mr Justice Goss and Mr Justice Wall is due to conclude later on Wednesday.
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