It costs close to £40k per year to keep someone in prison. If they both serve their full terms the cost to the taxpayer will be over £2 million. If they are never released and end up spending their rest of their days behind bars, the cost could be double that or more. I fail to see the reasoning behind the state spending such huge amounts of money in keeping people who mean us harm.

Moors murderer Ian Brady has been in various institutions for close on 50 years now, the cost to the taxpayer has been £14 million so far. This is nonsense.