Murderer’s ‘Lenient’ Sentence Increased After Appeal by Victim’s Family

Killer of Claire Knights has jail sentence increased

Harrison Lawrence Van-Pooss will now spend 31 years in prison before he is eligible for release. A pub chef who murdered a woman while she walked her dog will spend nearly six more years in prison after Court of Appeal judges increased his sentence. Harrison Lawrence Van-Pooss was jailed for life with a minimum term of 25-and-a-half years in February for killing Claire Knights, 54, in Kent almost two years ago. He ambushed her as she walked back…

Murderer’s ‘lenient’ sentence increased after appeal by victim’s family

A man who murdered a dog walker will spend almost six years longer in prison after her family appealed for his sentence to be increased.

Killer of dog walker has jail sentence increased

Claire Knights was walking her dog when she was attacked as she walked back from the beach

Man who assaulted and killed a dog walker has sentence increased

Harrison Lawrence-Van Pooss (21), from Margate, Kent, has had his sentence increased after it was referred to the Court of Appeal by the Solicitor General Lucy Rigby KC MP, under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme.   The court heard that in August 2023, Claire Knights from Canterbury, went for a walk with her dog around the Minnis Bay area of Birchington.   As Claire was walking back to her car, she was pushed off the path by Lawrence-Van Pooss …