VICTIMS MUST SEE 'SENSE OF JUSTICE BEING SERVED'

THE parents of Sarah Everard have warned that many murder victims' families are not getting justice, with killers let off lightly.

- By Michael Knowles

Jeremy and Susan Everard said a whole life order for the killer of Sarah, left, “made us feel that the enormity of his crime was recognised”.

But they are today backing a drive to have murderers and sex offenders locked up for longer, in order to “give victims, their families and society a sense of justice having been served”.

Campaigners claim that the justice system is "loaded towards the criminals", with killers able to eventually leave jail and restart their lives - while their victims are "never coming back home".

Labour plans to jail fewer criminals, to prevent prison overcrowding crises.

Jeremy and Susan Everard said, ahead of meeting victims minister Alex Davies-Jones and Tory leader Kemi Badenoch: "We feel it is important that sentences should truly reflect the seriousness of the crime and give victims, their families and society a sense of justice having been served.

"Although nothing can alleviate the sense of loss, it is a relief to us that our daughter's murderer received a whole life order. It made us feel that the enormity of his crime was recognised and that our daughter's life was valued. We know of other families in similar circumstances who have not had this small comfort."

Marketing executive Sarah, 33, was kidnapped, raped and murdered by serving policeman Wayne Couzens in March 2021.