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Article: SOLDIERS' LIFE SENTENCES CUT TO 25 YEARS Cyprus court still takes tough stand over killers

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November 30, 1998
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THREE former British soldiers - two of them from the Midlands - today had their appeal against life sentences for the killing of Danish tour guide Louise Jensen upheld by the Cyprus Supreme Court.

The men, ex-members of the First Battalion Royal Green Jackets, will now serve a maximum 25 years as opposed to the life term imposed by a criminal court.

Alan Ford (30), from Birmingham, Geoff Pernell (27), from Oldbury, and Justin Fowler, (30), from Falmouth, Cornwall, were jailed for life without remission in March 1996 for the abduction and manslaughter of Miss Jensen four years ago. But although they had the life sentence reduced, the Supreme Court still imposed a stiffer sentence for ...

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