Viktor Dembovskis
Viktor Dembovskis (born 1963) is a Latvian-born, British-based [...]. He is serving life imprisonment for the [...] of Jeshma Raithatha and is unlikely ever to be released.
He raped and murdered 17-year-old Jeshma in Greenford, West London on May 16, 2005. Dembovskis fled to Latvia soon after the [...] but was soon arrested and extradited back to England.
Dembovskis was found guilty of [...] and [...] at the Old Bailey on March 29, 2006. He received three concurrent terms of life imprisonment and trial judge recommended that he should never be released, a rare recommendation for someone guilty of a single [...].
In February 2007, the European Court of Justice began a review of lifelong imprisonment to determine whether such sentences amounted to a violation of human rights. It lifelong imprisonment is outlawed, then Dembovskis and all other prisoners serving such sentences would have their cases recalled to court in order for a new minimum term to be set.