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Teen who murdered his family will not be given whole-life order after appeal dismissed
A teenage killer who admitted murdering his mother and two siblings will not have his sentence increased to a whole life term, the Court of Appeal has decided.
Nicholas Prosper, 19, avoids being the first person aged between 18 and 20 to be given a whole-life tariff, after rules were changed in 2022 to allow younger defendants in that age range to receive whole-life orders in exceptional circumstances. No one in that age bracket has ever received that sentence.
Prosper 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 13 September 2023. He also admitted weapons charges after plotting a mass shooting at his former primary school in the town.
In a two-day sentencing hearing in April, Mrs Justice Chema-Grub had said she would not impose a whole-life order because Prosper was stopped from carrying out the school shooting. The judge had said a whole-life term could only be given to an 18 to 20-year-old if a court deemed "that the seriousness of the combination of offences is exceptionally high".
She continued that while he was "indisputably a very dangerous young man.
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