Peterborough’s Joanne Dennehy is the first woman in the UK to be handed a whole life tariff by a Judge. The judge ordered that she should die behind bars for the brutal murders of three innocent men.
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00:00 I've never seen anything like it before or since. It was the strangest bit of behaviour
00:05 I've ever personally seen in a courtroom. It showed how she wanted to be that centre
00:10 of attention. She knew everyone was there for her, to see her and she just wanted to
00:15 be in that spotlight, that centre of attention.
00:18 I'm Steve Briggs and I've been the Chief Reporter at the Peterborough Telegraph for
00:34 the last 16 years and it's at this spot here that a major murder investigation was launched
00:39 on Easter weekend in 2013. This is where the first body was found, the first of three.
00:45 Jo Dennehy would get a whole life term. She would never be released from prison. In doing
00:50 so, she became only the third woman in British legal history to be given such a life sentence
00:56 after Myra Hindley and Rose West. That obviously now has become a group of four people with
01:01 the recent sentencing of Lucy Letby.