Soho pub bomber denied cut to sentence - David Copeland deserves "a very long jail term", says Lord Chief Justice
THE man who brought death and destruction to Soho’s gay community 12 years ago has been told there will be no reduction in his jail sentence.
David Copeland, now 35, waged a one-man war of nail bombings at selected targets in 1999 which culminated in a deadly attack on popular gay hangout, the Admiral Duncan pub, claiming three lives – Andrea Dykes, 27, from Colchester, and close pals John Light, 32, and Nik Moore, 31, also from Essex. Others lost limbs and suffered permanent injuries.
Copeland, from Farnborough, Hants, was given life sentences and told he must serve at least 50 years before being able to apply for parole. Rejecting Copeland’s latest bid for a lesser term, Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge said the outrages he committed in Brick Lane and Brixton, as well as his attack at the Admiral Duncan, deserved a very long jail term because of the dangerous and evil way he went about carrying them out.
PUBLISHED: 08 July 2011
by DAVID St GEORGE