It looks to me, merely from the news reports, that this particular chap should be in for significantly longer than five years, and the age of this particular victim is a significantly aggravating factor. It gives you some sympathy with the "life means life" crowd, who generally I try not to associate with.

And it's a bit alarming if life routinely means about five years. I mean, why call it "life" then?

Er, I appear to be doing some maternal frothing here. I'll go away now.