The 'life means life' prisoners
Roy Whiting today spends his first full day in an exclusive club of notorious prisoners who have been told they will never be released.
Such a status, recommended by Mr Justice Curtis but still to be confirmed by Home Secretary David Blunkett, is normally conferred on multiple killers rather than those with a single victim like Whiting.
The most infamous prisoners who know that "life means life" are the Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe and Rose West, who killed 10 women with her husband Fred.
Only Hindley and West are in prison. Sutcliffe is at Broadmoor maximum security hospital and Brady is at Ashworth.
Others on full life sentences include Robert Black, who abducted and killed three young girls, the Manchester GP Dr Harold Shipman, convicted of murdering 15 patients and Dennis Nilsen who killed up to 15 gay men, boiling their heads.
Whiting had been held pending his trial at High Down prison in Surrey and is likely to undergo assessment there before being moved to the sex offenders wing probably at Whitemoor prison in Cambridgeshire.
