CHILD killer Anwar Rosser today lost an appeal against his full life jail term.

The 34-year-old former soldier was convicted in February for the brutal murder of the four-year-old Riley Turner who was asleep in bed at his Keighley home.

Rosser and “sexual deviant" Jamie Reynolds, who lured a 17-year-old girl to her death, had their cases rejected by three judges at the Court of Appeal in London.

The ruling was made today by Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas, Mr Justice Wyn Williams and Mr Justice Sweeney.

The court announced in both cases that there was "no basis on which it can properly be argued that a whole-life order was not required".

The punishment handed out for the "horrific" murders was "just", said Lord Thomas.

Rosser, who admitted murdering four-year-old Riley Turner in a "savage and gratuitous" attack, was handed a whole-life tariff by a judge at Bradford Crown Court in February.

He was staying the night at Riley’s home in January last year when he stabbed and strangled the "happy and bubbly" child as he lay in his bed.

Sentencing Rosser, Mr Justice Coulson described him as an "exceptionally dangerous man" who could kill another child if he was ever released, before ruling he should spend the rest of his life in prison.