THE WAIT for a jail tariff to be set for the killer of nine-year-old Warminster schoolgirl Zoe Evans looks set to continue.
Zoe's family have been waiting seven years for her former stepfather Miles Evans, a soldier based at Battlesbury Barracks, to be set a minimum term of imprisonment.
Evans has been in prison since 1998 after being convicted of murdering Zoe and burying her body in a badger sett a mile from their home in Pepper Place.
West Wilts MP Dr Andrew Murrison sent a letter to the Home Office on Tuesday asking for a list of killers still waiting to have their sentences set, so Zoe's family no longer have to wait in limbo.
The office at the High Court in London were reportedly ready to start dealing with the backlog, triggered by a European ruling effectively making it illegal for the Home Secretary to set or change killers' sentences.
Zoe's grandmother Ann Hamilton, 59, from Westfield Road, Trowbridge, joined forces with the Wiltshire Times two years ago on our Justice For Zoe campaign calling for Evans' jail tariff to be set.
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