Justice Secretary will also announce new powers to suspend parental responsibility from any parent who kills their partner
Murderers who carry out sexually motivated attacks will automatically face a whole life sentence even if they were charged before the new law is introduced.
Rishi Sunak will announce on Tuesday that orders for whole life sentences without parole will be applied retrospectively to anyone who was charged with such an offence before the law came in but is yet to be convicted.
In August the Prime Minister announced a new expectation on judges to hand down whole life orders where they can apply, other than in exceptional cases, and extended their application to include those who commit murder with sexual or sadistic conduct.
Tuesday’s announcement means these changes will apply not just to offenders who commit their crime after the legislation kicks in, but to all offenders of those crimes that have been committed but not yet sentenced after this change.