Key Events So Far 14:16 Jonathan Humphries Kelsey’s mum had to turn off life support
Gareth Evans, QC, representing Wilcocks is addressing the judge.
GE “You have to pass on him a life sentence, and then a minimum term, of which he will have to serve every day.”
Mr Evans says there was a lack of premeditation in Wilcocks behaviour and the incident just “blew up.”
He suggest that Wilcocks 16 year sentence, passed in 2011, was too high.
Judge Mr Justice Holroyde says: “The jury rejected your attempts to minimise responsibility for this terrible crime. You ended a very young life in very cruel manner.
“The first strangling shows you knew exactly what you were doing
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“The grim reality is that it cannot have been quick, and she could not have met her death passively. You choked the life out of her. Every murder ends one life, but ruins many more, and so it has in this case.
“Kelsey Shaw, aged only 17, lost her young life, her mother has been left to live with that loss.”
Judge Holroyde says that Kelsey
s mum had to make the heartbreaking decision to turn off Kelseys life-support machine following the attack.
14:06 Jonathan Humphries Family return to gallery
The case has been called on and Kelseys relieved family are returning to the public gallery.
14:04 Jonathan Humphries Wilcocks to be sentenced this afternoon
I am in Liverpool Crown Court for the sentencing of Callum Wilcocks, who was once again convicted of the murder of Speke teenager Kelsey Shaw this morning.
Wilcocks, now 23, of Hale Drive in Speke, always admitted strangling his on-off girlfriend after a row about them seeing other people. But today a jury dismissed the defence that Wilcocks lost his self-control or suffered an “abnormality of mental function” due to a severe personality disorder, after a seven day re-trial at Liverpool Crown Court. Wilcocks was originally found guilty of murder and received a life sentence with a minimum of 15 years in prison in December, 2011. However he won the right to appeal in October 2014, and a fresh trial was ordered earlier this year. The cocaine addict always admitted choking the 17-year-old mum-of-one in an arm lock before continuing to throttle her with his hands when she collapsed. His sentence will begin at 2.05pm
Source: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/