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Emily Jones' killer has minimum sentence increased after judge admits making a mistake

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Bolton schoolgirl Emily Jones has had her minimum sentence increased. Eltiona Skana, 30, was sentenced to life imprisonment for slitting the seven-year-old's throat in Queen's Park, Bolton, last year.She was told she could not be considered for parole for at least eight years.However, the minimum period has now been upped to 10 years and eight months after the judge who passed sentence said it had been "calculated in error".Mr Justice Wall explained in a brief hearing at Teesside Crown Court, where he is currently sitting, that he had arrived at the original figure by halving the notional determinate sentence of 16 years.He said: "However, when I passed that sentence I had forgotten from the 1st April 2020 the law as to the minimum period.

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