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Wife-killer Andrew Griggs sentenced to 3 more years in prison
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02/06/2025
After being imprisoned for life for Debbie Griggs' murder, he admitted to trying to trick the police into believing his wife might still be alive.
Finn Macdiarmid reports.
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A devious and conniving killer who attempted to lie to get away with the murder of his
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own wife Debbie.
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That was how the judge described Andrew Griggs today at Canterbury Crown Court, just before
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sentencing him to an additional three years on top of the life sentence he's currently
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serving for murder, which has a minimum term of 20 years.
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He murdered Debbie in 1999 and was only given his life sentence in 2019.
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But his new charge was perverting the course of justice, which he heard from prison on
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the Isle of Wight for trying to get his own son to dig up the victim and send a lock of
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her hair from abroad in an attempt to trick the authorities into believing she was still alive.
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Despite his guilty plea, Debbie's family say they still haven't gotten closure for her
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murder.
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We thought we had justice for Debbie in 2019.
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We were wrong.
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We have been tormented and consistently laughed at by A.G.
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When we got Debbie back in November 2022, we were able to bury her and we thought that
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was closure.
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Also, it's worth adding that despite us holding out an olive branch, Jeremy, Jake and Luke failed
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to attend or even acknowledge.
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It would appear that we are never going to be able to put us to bed.
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And now we are all seeing, seeing, feeling that the déjà vu will ensure that we never
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get justice or 100% closure.
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Despite the serious nature of the offence, the added years to his sentence were reduced
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to three years.
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Now, of those three years that have been added to his minimum life sentence, he'll actually
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only end up serving just more than half of them.
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This is because Griggs will be eligible to apply for parole at the halfway point of this
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additional sentence.
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There were two options open to the judge.
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The judge could have made it a concurrent sentence.
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However, he chose to make it a consecutive sentence and actually acknowledged the seriousness
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and the gravity of the offence, making it the highest culpability.
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So in terms of that, I think the judge absolutely took into account everything that was available
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to him and sentenced accordingly.
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It was a consecutive sentence, which is very much welcomed.
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Judge Simon James also made reference to Andrew Griggs' character and said he showed
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a lack of remorse during the trial, not only for murdering his wife, but for using his
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own son to attempt to provide himself with an alibi.
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But the consecutive sentence does mean that Griggs will have to wait longer to apply for
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parole.
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His family say they still want closure from him by him saying exactly what happened on
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the night Debbie was murdered.
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Finn McDermid for KMTV in Canterbury.
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