David Cameron today hailed a ‘great victory for common sense’ as two convicted murderers lost a Supreme Court battle for the right to vote while in jail.
The UK’s highest court dismissed appeals brought by Peter Chester and George McGeoch.
Judges said the public is opposed to giving inmates the vote and it was ‘not surprising’ MPs had moved to block the idea.
The latest round of the legal battle against the ban preventing them from voting while in prison was rejected by seven Supreme Court justices in London.
Chester, who is in his 50s, is serving life for raping and strangling his seven-year-old niece Donna Marie Gillbanks in Blackpool in 1977.
McGeoch, from Glasgow, is serving his life sentence at Dumfries prison for the 1998 murder of Eric Innes in Inverness.