Gary Finaly
THE knifeman who killed a Merseyside dad and left his son critically injured will serve all of his 25 years in prison.
Appeal Court judges yesterday declared that Gary Finlay was not deserving of any time off the double life sentence he was given for the murder of soldier Graham McKenna and the attempted murder of then-14-year-old Michael McKenna.
His legal team tried to argue that Recorder of Liverpool, Judge Henry Globe, QC, had not given 46-year-old Finlay sufficient credit for his guilty plea. A guilty plea can attract a discount in sentence of up to one-third. But the London judges said Judge Globe’s ruling and the sentence passed were both legally sound.
Finlay targeted Mr McKenna, a 45-year-old father-of-two from Claughton, Wirral, stabbing him repeatedly in January last year.
