Call to keep killers locked up if they won't reveal site of victim remains

THE family of a murdered and dis-membered woman whose remains are yet to be found are "living a life sentence" due to a failure of justice. Chantel Taylor's sister, mother and daughter took their fight for a change in the law to Sir Keir Starmer's door-step at No 10 Downing Street yester-day, alongside Esther McVey MP. Mother-of-three Chantel was bru-tally murdered at age 27 with a meat cleaver by former soldier Stephen Wynne near his home in Birkenhead, Merseyside, in March 2004. But despite Wynne telling police her body was in places including a household bin and in undergrowth at a park five miles from his home, her remains have never been found. Now her grieving family have demanded that, through Chantel's Law, murderers serve a mandatory 40-year sentence, without parole, for murder when their victim's remains are not found. And they also insist killers who dismember a body, and never reveal its location, should never be freed from prison. The Express is backing their pleas through the Families Fighting for Justice crusade. Wynne, who was 26 at the time, was jailed for a minimum term of 21 years - but it was later reduced to 18 years by the Court of Appeal. He won the right to be moved to an open prison last May after a judge dismissed a government objection.

- By Steph Spryo

THE family of a murdered and dismembered woman whose remains are yet to be found are "living a life sentence" due to a failure of justice.

Chantel Taylor's sister, mother and daughter took their fight for a change in the law to Sir Keir Starmer's doorstep at No 10 Downing Street yesterday, alongside Esther McVey MP.

Mother-of-three Chantel was brutally murdered at age 27 with a meat cleaver by former soldier Stephen Wynne near his home in Birkenhead, Merseyside, in March 2004.

But despite Wynne telling police her body was in places including a household bin and in undergrowth at a park five miles from his home, her remains have never been found.

Now her grieving family have demanded that, through Chantel's Law, murderers serve a mandatory 40-year sentence, without parole, for murder when their victim's remains are not found.