Shaine March killed Alana Odysseos in 2025, having been released on licence after killing a teenager in 2000
A man who murdered his pregnant girlfriend after being released from prison on licence must spend the rest of his life in jail, the court of appeal has ruled after finding that the original 42-year sentence was “too lenient”.
Alana Odysseos, 32, was in the early stages of pregnancy with her third child when Shaine March, now 48, killed her at her home in Walthamstow, east London, in July last year. She died at the scene from 23 slash and stab wounds.
March had been released from prison on a life licence in 2013 after fatally stabbing Andre Drummond, 17, in the neck at a McDonald’s restaurant in south London in January 2000.
He was jailed for life in October last year with a minimum term of 42 years, but after calls from Conservative MPs, the solicitor general referred the sentence to the court of appeal. The government’s lawyers told a hearing on Thursday that March should have been given a whole-life order, which is reserved for the most serious murder cases.
