Life will mean life

Killers will pay price for their crimes

A mother who killed both her young daughters because they “got in the way of her sex life” would be kept in prison for the rest of her life under the plans to be put forward by Boris Johnson.

The Prime Minister has put together proposals that would mean murderers of infants would never be able to walk free, with the killers being handed wholelife orders.

Louise Porton was found guilty of the “evil” and “calculated” murders of three-year-old Lexi Draper and 17-month-old Scarlett Vaughan, who died 18 days apart last year.

While Lexi was receiving treatment for the injuries inflicted by her, 23-year-old Porton took topless photos in the hospital bathrooms and was arranging to perform sex acts for money with a man she had met through a website, Birmingham Crown Court heard.

The children’s father, Chris Draper, said: “I sit and think, day and night, and I can’t understand why my two little girls were taken away because Louise wanted to sleep around.

No punishment will ever be enough as I will never get my daughters back.”

Porton was jailed for a minimum of 32 years.

David McGreavy, who murdered three small children and impaled them on a neighbour’s iron railings, would also have been locked up for life under the plans.

He was released this year after spending 45 years in prison.

Now 67, he was 21 when he beat to death Samantha Urry, nine months, strangled her brother Paul, four, and cut the throat of sister Dawn, two, in 1973.

The only explanation he gave was that Samantha would not stop crying.

He had been eligible for parole for 25 years but every previous application was turned down.

Robin Walker, the Conservative MP for Worcester, who has repeatedly written to successive justice ministers and home secretaries objecting to McGreavy’s release, said: “Frankly, I don’t think someone who carried out such crimes should ever be let out.”