‘Do not free these
killers’
The Sheffield Star
Published
Date: 16 June 2009
By Claire Lewis
A CHESTERFIELD author is campaigning for the killers of
two French students to never be released.
Scott Lomax, aged
26, has written to the Attorney General, Baroness Scotland, asking for the
sentences to be upgraded to whole life tariffs. The Baroness has confirmed
she may now refer the matter to the Court of Appeal.
Dano Sonnex, 23, from
Peckham, south London, and Nigel Farmer, 33, murdered Gabriel Ferez and Laurent Bonomo, both
23, in New Cross, south-east London.
They both received life sentences, with Sonnex
ordered to serve at least 40 years and Farmer at least 35 years.
The students suffered hundreds of stab wounds after being tied up in their bedsit during the horrific attack on 29
June 2008. Their
room was then set alight.
Mr Lomax, who campaigned for the release of Barry George, who was wrongly
jailed for the murder of Jill Dando, said the
killings were "unprecedented in British criminal history" and the
sentences were unjustly lenient.
He said: "They were torturous, brutal and pre-meditated murders.
"They should die in prison, with no chance of parole."
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