50-2407: David or Dave Mitchell may refer to: Entertainment [ edit ] David Mitchell (author) (born 1969), English novelist David Mitchell (comedian) (born 1974), British actor and comedian David Mitchell (Irish actor) (born 1973), Irish actor David Mitchell (New Zealand poet) (1940–2011), New Zealand poet David Robert Mitchell (born 1974), American film director David V. Mitchell (1943–2023), American editor and publisher Dave B. Mitchell (born 1969), American voice actor and musician Politics [ edit ] David Mitchell (politician) (1928–2014), British Conservative Member of Parliament David Brydie Mitchell (1760–1837), governor of Georgia (U.S.) Sports [ edit ] Football [ edit ] David Mitchell (Australian rules footballer) (born 1964), former Australian rules footballer David Mitchell (footballer, born 1866) (1866–1948), Scottish international football player David Mitchell (footballer, born 1945) (1945–2020), English football player David Mitchell (footballer, born 1990) , Scottish football goalkeeper (Stranraer, Dundee) Dave Mitchell (soccer) (born 1962), Scottish-born Australian footballer and coach Other sports [ edit ] David Mitchell (canoeist) (born 1943), former British slalom canoeist David Mitchell (cricketer) (born 1980), English cricketer David Mitchell (field hockey) (born 1981), Scottish field hockey defender David Mitchell (fighter) (born 1979), American mixed martial artist David Mitchell (figure skater) (born 1982), American ice dancer David Mitchell (lacrosse) (born 1984), Canadian lacrosse player Other [ edit ] David Mitchell (architect) (1941–2018), New Zealand architect David Mitchell (builder) (1829–1916), Scottish-Australian builder David Mitchell (lawyer) (1934–2018), Australian Presbyterian minister and former solicitor-general of Lesotho David Mitchell (murderer) (1972–2000), Bahamian murderer executed for his crimes David Mitchell (Royal Navy officer) (c. 1642–1710), Scottish admiral David B. Mitchell (police officer) (born 1950), American police chief from Maryland and Delaware David J. Mitchell (born 1954), Canadian historian David Scott Mitchell (1836–1907), Australian founder of
100-489: A book into English that was written by Naoki Higashida, a 13-year-old Japanese autistic boy, titled The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism . Higashida is said to have learned to communicate using the techniques of facilitated communication and rapid prompting method . In 2017, Mitchell and his wife translated a second book attributed to Higashida, Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man's Voice from
150-543: A cell said to resemble Hannibal Lecter's in the film The Silence of the Lambs with cardboard furniture. He became Britain's longest-serving prisoner after the death of Ian Brady in May 2017. After trials in London and Edinburgh , Hall received four life sentences and Kitto three at their trial in May 1978, with one judge recommending that Hall should never be freed. This recommendation
200-400: A conscience-clearing exercise, admitting to a third killing of which he had been originally acquitted, and implicating schoolfriend David Mulcahy as his accomplice. He also revealed his part in countless other rapes, for which he received a further 12 years. After Duffy gave evidence against him, Mulcahy was jailed for life for three murders and seven rapes in 2001 but is not believed to be among
250-573: A contract to write season three of the series, but Netflix cancelled the show. In August 2019, it was announced that Mitchell would continue his collaboration with Lana Wachowski and Hemon to write the screenplay for The Matrix Resurrections . After another stint in Japan, Mitchell and his wife, Keiko Yoshida, live in Ardfield , County Cork, Ireland, as of 2018 . They have two children. In an essay for Random House , Mitchell wrote: I knew I wanted to be
300-530: A missing person. Despite the alibis provided by his girlfriend Sheilagh Farrow, Hardy was found guilty of the murders and sentenced to life imprisonment in May 1978. He remained in prison until his death 36 years later, by which time he was one of the longest serving prisoners in Britain. He has served much of his sentence in solitary confinement to prevent him from attacking or killing any more inmates, some of it at Parkhurst prison , but mostly at Wakefield prison in
350-744: A prisoner named Anthony Anderson in 2002, a whole life order was set by government ministers. Thereafter only a judicial body could decide to impose such an order. The effect of a whole life order is that the prisoner serves the sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Whole life orders have been reportedly issued in approximately 100 cases since introduction in 1983, although some of these prisoners have since died in custody, or had their sentences reduced on appeal. By 2023, there were believed to be more than 70 prisoners currently serving whole life sentences in England and Wales. These include some of Britain's most notorious criminals, including
400-767: A recommended minimum term of 18 years in September 1984. However, he remains in prison more than 35 years on, having been issued with a whole-life tariff by the Home Secretary, Leon Brittan. Hutchinson has since appealed against this ruling twice through the High Court, but the court upheld the decision of the Home Secretary on both occasions, meaning he is likely to die in prison. Appeals to the European Court of Human Rights in February 2015 and January 2017 were also unsuccessful, with
450-422: A sex offender when at liberty, even if he had not been jailed for these offences. Reynolds, 23 when he went on trial began and still 22 when he committed the murder, confessed to the murder on 2 December 2013. Sentencing was delayed until 19 December, when the judge sentenced him to life imprisonment and recommended that he should never be released, after reading reports from psychiatrists stating that Reynolds had
500-652: A whole-life tariff) at HMP Woodhill , with the judge once again reiterating that he should never be released. In defence, his solicitor argued that the lack of any realistic chance of release from prison had contributed to Vinter's violent behaviour and removed the incentive for him to behave well and co-operate with the prison regime. In November 2012, Vinter had also admitted wounding child killer Roy Whiting in prison. Sutcliffe's trial judge recommended that he should serve at least 30 years in prison before being considered for parole, meaning that he could have been given parole as early as 2011, nine years before his death. It
550-452: A whole-life tariff. In April 2014 it was reported that he would be appealing for a reduction in his sentence, despite his solicitor announcing shortly after the trial that Reynolds was resigned to spending the rest of his life in prison and would not be challenging his sentence. His appeal was rejected on 31 October 2014. Since he was remanded in custody during 2013, Reynolds has been held at Ashworth Hospital , Merseyside . In September 2016,
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#1733085918481600-433: A writer since I was a kid, but until I came to Japan to live in 1994 I was too easily distracted to do much about it. I would probably have become a writer wherever I lived, but would I have become the same writer if I'd spent the last six years in London, or Cape Town , or Moose Jaw , on an oil rig or in the circus? This is my answer to myself. Mitchell has a stammer . He believes that the film The King's Speech (2010)
650-587: A £100,000 lump-sum payment plus £1,200 per month for life, as his wife would only receive this if he died before the age of 60 (he committed suicide a day before his 58th birthday). Since the European Court of Human Rights decision, only trial judges and the High Court have had the power to impose a whole life order. In that time, there have been at least 64 instances of trial judges recommending that an offender should never be released. Several of these prisoners have had their whole life tariffs reduced on appeal by
700-679: Is an English novelist, television writer, and screenwriter. He has written nine novels, two of which, number9dream (2001) and Cloud Atlas (2004), were shortlisted for the Booker Prize . He has also written articles for several newspapers, most notably for The Guardian . He has translated books about autism from Japanese to English. Mitchell was born in Southport in Lancashire (now Merseyside ), England, and raised in Malvern, Worcestershire . He
750-476: Is one of the most accurate portrayals of that experience for an individual. He said, "I'd probably still be avoiding the subject today had I not outed myself by writing a semi-autobiographical novel, Black Swan Green , narrated by a stammering 13-year-old." Mitchell is a patron of the British Stammering Association . Mitchell's son is autistic. In 2013, Mitchell and his wife Yoshida translated
800-557: Is set to keep him imprisoned until at least 2049 and the age of 73. Several prisoners serving whole life sentences have challenged the legality of whole life sentences in the High Court or European Court of Human Rights . These include Jeremy Bamber and Gary Vinter, whose second legal challenge to the European Court of Human Rights was successful, although the High Court later ruled that whole life sentences could still be issued as long as they were reviewed within 25 years. Arthur Hutchinson has challenged his sentence several times in both
850-604: The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (for best work of British literature written by an author under 35) and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award . His two subsequent novels, number9dream (2001) and Cloud Atlas (2004), were both favourably received and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize . In 2003, he was selected as one of Granta 's Best of Young British Novelists. In 2007, Mitchell
900-499: The High Court also stripped ministers of their power to overrule the Parole Board's decision that a life sentence prisoner can be paroled. Successive Home Secretaries are known to have imposed whole life orders for at least 23 murderers between 1983 and 2002 (note, this list is incomplete). In 2002, a former Junior Home Office Minister during the 1980s, Douglas Hogg , admitted to setting 600 tariffs between 1986 and 1989 on behalf of
950-502: The High Court and the European Court of Human Rights, but has been unsuccessful each time. Despite the fact that ministers can no longer decide when or if a life sentence prisoner can be considered for parole, they still retain the power to release a prisoner during their sentences on compassionate grounds . This normally includes cases only when a prisoner is incapacitated, seriously ill or of great age. Several months before ministers were stripped of their powers to set minimum sentences,
1000-543: The High Court. Dix died in 2014, aged 60. Vinter was among the killers who mounted the successful legal challenge against the whole life tariff in July 2013, with the Court of Appeal later ruling in February 2014 that such sentences were justified provided that they were reviewed within 25 years of being issued. In February 2016, Vinter was given a third life sentence for the attempted murder of fellow prisoner Lee Newell (also serving
1050-420: The Home Secretary. With accomplice Myra Hindley, he buried the children in shallow graves on Saddleworth Moor . From being declared insane in 1985 until his death he was held in a mental hospital and was on long-term hunger strike , which led to him being force-fed through a tube. In 2001, he published a book on serial killing . The body of one of his victims, 12-year-old Keith Bennett, remains undiscovered on
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1150-602: The Moor, despite Brady's and Hindley's own heavily guarded efforts to locate the remains themselves after they admitted two further murders in 1986; they both did, however, guide police to the buried body of 16-year-old Pauline Reade in 1987. Brady never made a legal challenge against his whole life tariff and made it clear long before his death that he did not want to be paroled. He died, aged 79, at Ashworth Hospital in May 2017. Hindley's trial judge recommended she should serve at least 25 years in prison, feeling that unlike Brady there
1200-483: The Silence of Autism . Novels Novellas Short stories Opera librettos Selected articles Other List of prisoners with whole life orders This is a list of prisoners who have received a whole life order , formerly called a whole life tariff , through some mechanism in jurisdictions of the United Kingdom . From the introduction of the whole life order system in 1983 until an appeal by
1250-474: The Welsh media reported that Reynolds was lodging a fresh appeal to the European Court of Human Rights which was likely to be heard during 2017. As of 2019, however, his case has still not been heard. Following a ruling by British judges in February 2014 that whole-life tariffs were lawful, McLoughlin's 40-year sentence was quashed, and a whole-life order was applied to him. This was the second murder that Birley
1300-672: The court's Grand Chamber ruling that whole life sentences could still be issued provided they were reviewed within 25 years. His trial judge said that he found the idea of ever seeing Bamber free again "difficult to foresee", and advised that he should serve at least 25 years behind bars before release could even be considered. Before the law lords' ruling in November 2002, Bamber was told by at least one Home Secretary that his life sentence would mean life. He has continued to protest his innocence but all appeals against his convictions have so far been unsuccessful. After 12 years in prison, Duffy went on
1350-438: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Mitchell&oldid=1236387096 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages David Mitchell (author) David Stephen Mitchell (born 12 January 1969)
1400-433: The murder. Four years later, Halliwell was tried for Godden's murder after Wiltshire Police uncovered new evidence in the case. On 19 September 2016, a jury convicted him of Godden's murder and, on 23 September, he was given a whole-life sentence with the judge describing him as a "calculating and devious" individual. Police are also investigating the possibility he may have killed more women. Police believe he committed
1450-495: The murders because she was planning to leave him. He buried their bodies in the garden and later fled to Ghana in an attempt to evade justice, but was caught and returned to the UK. On 5 October 2016, he was given a whole-life sentence after he pleaded guilty to the murders. At his trial, the Judge accepted that Port's intention was only to cause really serious harm and not death, but made
1500-471: The point that Port must have foreseen that there was a high risk of death, especially after the death of his first victim. This was sufficient for him to be convicted of murder in English law . The Judge said that he had carried out the murders to "satisfy his lust for sex with young men who were rendered unconscious" and gave him a whole-life term. Fellows was also found guilty of shooting dead John Kinsella ,
1550-451: The potential to progress into a serial killer had he not apprehended and was likely to remain a danger to women for the rest of his life. The court also heard of pornographic material found on his computer, including 72 graphic videos and more than 16,000 graphic images. A murderer at the age of 22 and sentenced to life at 23, Reynolds is one of the youngest people in British history to be handed
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1600-416: The prisoners who have been issued with a whole life tariff. Hindley's death in November 2002 left West as the only confirmed female prisoner on the whole-life tariff register, until the addition of Joanne Dennehy, in 2014. There were news reports as of 2018 of her planning to appeal her whole life sentence. Shipman's suicide may have been motivated by the desire to leave his wife with a full NHS pension of
1650-707: The public and media. Relatives of the Moors Murders victims were at the centre of a campaign to keep Hindley imprisoned and several of them vowed to kill her if she was ever paroled. Hindley subsequently made three appeals against the whole life tariff, but each appeal was unsuccessful, and she died in jail at the age of 60 in November 2002, just over a week before a long-anticipated High Court ruling which had been expected to secure her freedom. The question as to whether Hindley should ever be released prompted more debate than that of any other prisoner of notoriety, with some high-profile backing from her supporters, but vitriol from
1700-539: The release of the 2012 film adaptation of Cloud Atlas , Mitchell began work as a screenwriter with Lana Wachowski (one of Cloud Atlas ' three directors). In 2015, Mitchell contributed plotting and scripted scenes for the second season of the Netflix series Sense8 by the Wachowskis . They had adapted the novel for a TV series, and together with Aleksandar Hemon , they wrote the series finale. Mitchell had signed
1750-411: The serial murderer, Rosemary West and the premature baby serial killer, Lucy Letby . Other criminals such as David Copeland have had their initial minimum sentences increased. His trial judge recommended a minimum of 30 years, but this was eventually increased to a minimum of 50 years by the High Court. Copeland can only be released after 50 years if considered not to be dangerous at that point. This
1800-418: The tabloid press and the public, as well as the families of her victims. Lord Longford was at the centre of the campaign for Hindley to be paroled, and condemned the media for their "exploitation" of Ann West, mother of victim Lesley Ann Downey. Ann West gave regular newspaper and television interviews to argue against any suggestion of Hindley ever being released from prison, and vowed to kill Hindley if she ever
1850-494: Was a possibility that Hindley could be rehabilitated and suitable for parole – once removed from Brady's influence. The 25-year minimum term was endorsed in 1982 by the Lord Chief Justice. By this stage, reports suggested that Hindley was rehabilitating in prison and had found religion and rejected Brady and her past, but her tariff was increased to 30 years in 1985 and, finally, to a whole-life tariff in 1990, although she
1900-559: Was also not taken sufficiently seriously and the girls were not warned. Several agencies were involved with Reynolds but there was no co-ordinated approach to managing or monitoring him, and consequently few people who knew him were aware of these incidents. In the aftermath of his conviction for the murder of Georgia Williams, media sources stated that the murder could have been prevented if police and social services had acted on information they had received about Reynolds, which would have led to him being monitored and potentially registered as
1950-628: Was based on the 2000 Enschede fireworks disaster . It was performed by the Dutch Nationale Reisopera in 2010. He created the opera, Sunken Garden , with Dutch composer Michel van der Aa ; it was premiered in 2013 by the English National Opera . Several of Mitchell's book covers were created by design duo Kai and Sunny. Mitchell has also collaborated with the duo, by contributing two short stories to their art exhibits in 2011 and 2014. Mitchell's sixth novel, The Bone Clocks ,
2000-461: Was convicted of. In 1996, Birley had been convicted of the murder of 69-year-old Maurice Hoyle in his house in Barnsley and served 18 years of a life sentence before being released on licence. As a result of having already been convicted of one murder, Birley was given a whole-life tariff for the murder of Mr Gogarty. His partner, Helen Nichols, was told she must serve a minimum of 20 years for her part in
2050-462: Was due to be heard. In 2008 Reynolds tried to strangle a girl, but this merely resulted in a final warning when police investigated. In 2011, Reynolds drove his car into that of a girl who had rejected his advances, but police did not connect this with the 2008 incident. The Justice Liaison Service and police were told about violent pornography Reynolds had viewed, as well as images he had created of young women and teenage girls he personally knew. This
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2100-806: Was educated at Hanley Castle High School . At the University of Kent , he earned a degree in English and American Literature , followed by an M.A. in Comparative Literature . Mitchell lived in Sicily for a year. He moved to Hiroshima , Japan, where he taught English to technical students for eight years, before returning to England. There he could live on his earnings as a writer and support his pregnant wife. Mitchell's first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), takes place in locations ranging from Okinawa to Mongolia to pre-millennial New York City, as nine narrators tell stories that interlock and intersect. It won
2150-531: Was frequently reported in the media that he was among the prisoners to have been issued with a whole life tariff, but he was not on a list of 35 such prisoners which was published in December 2006. A whole life tariff was imposed by the High Court on 16 July 2010. Farrow died at HMP Frankland on 21 August 2023. Bridger later planned to appeal against his sentence, but dropped his appeal bid in January 2014 just before it
2200-599: Was listed among Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. In 2012, his metafictional novel Cloud Atlas (again, with multiple narrators), was adapted as a feature film of the same name. One segment of number9dream was adapted as a short film titled The Voorman Problem and starring Martin Freeman . It was nominated for a BAFTA in 2013. In addition to novels, Mitchell has written opera libretti in recent years. Wake , with music by Klaas de Vries ,
2250-502: Was not informed of the whole-life tariff until December 1994. In 1986, she and Brady had both confessed to two additional murders and helped the police locate one of the bodies the following year. Hindley's supporters, including penal reformer Lord Longford , journalist David Astor and prison governor Peter Timms, claimed that the increase in Hindley's sentence was the response of a succession of Home Secretaries to public opinion, as there
2300-594: Was published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2020, during the first year of the Covid 19 pandemic . Utopia Avenue tells the "unexpurgated story" of a British band of the same name, who emerged from London's psychedelic scene in 1967 and was "fronted by folk singer Elf Holloway, guitar demigod Jasper de Zoet and blues bassist Dean Moss". Mitchell's entire body of fictional works feature multiple recurring characters and themes that together form an interconnected fictional world, which Mitchell refers to as his 'macronovel'. Following
2350-553: Was published in 2014. In an interview in The Spectator , Mitchell said that the novel has "dollops of the fantastic in it", and is about "stuff between life and death". The Bone Clocks was longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize . Mitchell was the second author to contribute to the Future Library project . He delivered his book From Me Flows What You Call Time on 28 May 2016. Utopia Avenue , Mitchell's ninth novel,
2400-419: Was released. Her death left only Rosemary West (jailed for life for 10 murders in 1995) as a female prisoner serving a whole-life tariff, until the addition of Joanna Dennehy in 2014, and Lucy Letby in 2023. Trevor Hardy was arrested for the murders of Wanda Skala and Sharon Mosoph during 1976. In August 1976 he confessed to both murders and also to that of Janet Lesley Stewart – who until then had been
2450-416: Was upheld when the list of confirmed whole-life tariff prisoners was published, and Hall was the oldest prisoner on the list. He publicly requested the right to die in 1995, and did so of a stroke in 2002, while still in prison. At 78, he was one of the oldest prisoners in Britain. Three years earlier, he had published his autobiography. Hutchinson was convicted in 1984 and sentenced to life imprisonment with
2500-541: Was widespread media and public opposition to Hindley ever being released, and similarly widespread doubt as to whether her reported remorse and rehabilitation were genuine – the fact that she had not admitted the two additional murders until 20 years into her sentence further strengthened the argument of those who felt that her reported turnaround was nothing more than an attempt to boost her chances of parole. Her claims that Brady had bullied and blackmailed her into taking part into killings were also met with similar doubt by
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