Appeals
On October 24, 2006, the Appeal Court rejected a bid from Bieber for his convictions to be overturned, but ruled that he could appeal against the trial judge's recommendation that he should never be released.
In February 2007, Bieber's case was delayed due to a European Court of Human Rights review on whether lifelong imprisonment is a violation of human rights. If this case is successful, it will result in Bieber and all other such prisoners having their cases recalled to court for a new minimum term to be decided.
In 2007, Bieber was involved in an escape plot with two other prisoners.
On July 23, 2008, Bieber was told by the High Court that he would not have to serve a whole life term, as originally recommended by the trial judge, but would still have to serve a minimum of 37 years before being considered for parole, meaning that he is set to remain in prison until at least 2041 and the age of 75. His lawyers had made a successful appeal on the basis that the sentence amounted to 'inhuman treatment', which Paul McKeever, chairman of the Police Federation, described as " the judiciary with blood on its hands".
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