Mother's 'life to mean life' call

Chantel Taylor went missing in March 2004

A woman whose daughter was murdered by a man with a meat cleaver has marched on Downing Street to demand that life sentences "mean life".

Jean Taylor's daughter Chantel went missing in March 2004 but her killer was not found until 2006.

Former soldier Stephen Wynne, from Birkenhead, Wirral, was jailed for life after admitting murder, but is eligible for parole within 18 years.

Hundreds of other relatives of victims joined her to hand in a petition.

Mrs Taylor fronted a series of campaigns to find her daughter, a mother-of-three, but it was two years before her killer was caught.

Wynne was originally arrested for setting fire to a mosque - but confessed to Chantel's killing when police found a poem alluding to murder in his house.

Why should Steven Wynne come out and have Christmases with his family when I will never have a Christmas with my daughter? Jean Taylor

Liverpool Crown Court heard how Wynne - who pleaded guilty to murder - attacked Ms Taylor with a meat cleaver, dismembered her body with a saw before hiding it in nearby woods and the local tip.

The judge in his trial at Liverpool Crown Court said he should serve a minimum of 21 years - but this was reduced to 18 years at the Court of Appeal.

Mrs Taylor is among about 500 relatives of victims of crime travelling to 10 Downing Street with the 35,000-strong signature petition.

She told the BBC that murderers should never be let back out into society.

She said: "Why should they? They've taken a life and taken away the human rights of those they have murdered. So why they should have the rights to come outside?

"We - the victims, the families of the ones we've had murdered - we are serving a life sentence because our lives will never be the same."

Mrs Taylor said it was an "injustice" that Wynne could be released in the future.

"It is an insult to her name and her memory. Why should Steven Wynne come out and have Christmases with his family when I will never have a Christmas with my daughter?"