By Sammie Jones-
Two serial rapists are likely to die behind bars for committing some of the worst and most violent sexual offences in English legal history when they face a Court of Appeal hearing next month.
Joseph McCann, 35, was given 33 life sentences at the Old Bailey in December for a string of horrific sex attacks on 11 women and children during a 15-day cocaine and vodka-fuelled rampage.
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Reynhard Sinaga, 37, was also sentenced to life in January at Manchester Crown Court for a total of 159 offences, including 136 counts of rape, which he committed against 48 men . Police have linked him to over 190 potential victims. The crooks were handed a soft 30 year minimum sentences for their heinous crimes, meaning they could potentially be released after serving that time.
However, the Attorney General’s Office, horrified by the crime and lenient sentence, has referred the 30-year minimum jail terms handed to McCann and Sinaga to the Court of Appeal as “unduly lenient” and will argue they should each have received a whole life tariff instead.
A spokeswoman for the judiciary confirmed on Tuesday that the challenges to McCann and Sinaga’s sentences, originally due to take place in March but postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, would be heard over two days on October 14 and 15.
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Joseph McCann pictured on CCTV Credit: Met Police
Whole Life Tarriff
Solicitor general Michael Ellis QC said that McCann and Sinaga should both have been given a whole life tariff for a litany of sexual offences, which are “some of the worst and most violent that this country has ever witnessed”.
It will be the first time two separate offenders’ sentences have been challenged together as being unduly lenient.
Spate Of Sex Attacks
McCann executed a spate of sex attacks in London, Watford, and north west England in April and May 2019, just two months after the convicted burglar was wrongly freed from prison following “major failings” by probation staff.
His first victim was a woman walking home from a club in Watford, before he later abducted women in Walthamstow and Edgware.
After the women abducted in London escaped in North Watford, McCann fled up north where he continued his crimes. He was found guilty in December of 37 charges relating to 11 victims, aged between 11 and 71, and was described by the sentencing judge, Mr Justice Edis, as a “classic psychopath”.
Sinaga, described by a judge as ” an evil sexual predator”, and a ”monster”preyed on lone, drunk young men around nightclubs near his flat in Manchester, posing as a Good Samaritan who offered them a floor to sleep on or promised them more drink.
The Indonesian student drugged the men, before filming himself sexually violating them while they were unconscious, with many of his victims having little or no memory of the assaults.
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