Jordan McSweeney, the man convicted of stalking and murdering Zara Aleena, has successfully won a challenge at the Court of Appeal to have his minimum tariff reduced from 38 to 33 years.
Three judges, in their ruling on Friday, criticised the sentencing judge for imposing what they deemed as an excessively high “uplift” to McSweeney’s minimum prison term. As a result, they opted to replace it with a reduced minimum term of 33 years.
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