[2006] EWHC 3122 (QB)

The early release provisions contained in the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 s.28(5) to s.28(8) applied to a prisoner who was serving a life sentence for organising the murder of a woman who had been living with her husband as she had suffered a mental disorder which lowered her degree of culpability and she had been provoked by her husband's appalling behaviour. Accordingly, the provisions applied when she had served 18 years and one month in prison from the date of her conviction.

QBD (Cooke J)

14/12/2006