A triple murderer has lost an appeal against his whole-life prison sentence.
Arthur Hutchinson was jailed in 1984 for stabbing husband and wife Basil and Avril Laitner to death after breaking into their Sheffield home on their daughter's wedding night, then killing one of their sons.
He is the first whole-life prisoner to challenge his sentence after a controversial ruling by judges at the European Court of Human Rights in July 2013 that the tariffs breach human rights.
At the time, the Strasbourg-based court said that a sentence which forces murderers to die in jail was "inhuman and degrading" because it is not "reducible".
But in the case of Hutchinson, judges have ruled that the Secretary of State's power to review whole-life sentences is sufficient.
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Gallery: Whole-Life Prisoners
Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe was not given a whole life sentence when originally jailed for 13 murders in 1981. He was told he would serve 30 years before parole would be considered. In 2010, the High Court made the unusual step of subsequently imposing a whole-life tariff
'Crossbow cannibal' Stephen Griffiths was given a whole-life tariff after being convicted of murdering three women in Bradford, one of whom was shot with a crossbow
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