Baby rapist's sentence increased
The rapist of a 12-week-old baby has had his minimum jail term changed from six to eight years by appeal judges.
The five-year term originally imposed on Alan Webster's accomplice Tanya French will remain, the court said.
Webster, 40, was sentenced to life in January but was eligible to apply for parole after six years. French, 19, was jailed for five years.
Attorney General Lord Goldsmith QC said sentencing of the pair, from Hatfield, Hertfordshire, was "unduly lenient".
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Lord Goldsmith believes Webster might now never be released.
He said on the Jeremy Vine Show on Radio Two: "He has got a life sentence, he may never come out of prison.
"The most senior judge in the land actually said in the course of his judgement that such was his depravity that it's questionable that he will ever be released and he may die in prison."
A panel of five senior judges at the Court of Appeal, headed by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips, ruled that Webster's six-year minimum term was too short.
Photographs of abuse
Webster had been convicted of a "serious indecent assault" on a 14-year-old girl three years before he was sentenced for the baby rape crimes and the teenager's mother described his offences as "disgusting" on Thursday.
She was appalled by the new ruling and said: "That baby won't even have had its childhood by the time he could actually get out in eight years.
"That's still going to be a child. It's disgusting. He should have been locked away and the key thrown away."
The appeal court ruled that having regard to French's youth and the fact she had been corrupted by Webster, her sentence fell within the range that was properly open to the sentencing judge "and should not be disturbed".
Webster and French raped and indecently assaulted the baby and took photographs of the abuse, their trial heard.
The baby's mother has described the sentences given to the pair as a "joke".
She was unaware of the abuse until detectives visited her after finding photographs detailing the abuse at Webster's home.<!-- E BO -->
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