A KILLER’S jail sentence will not be increased after a challenge has failed.

Thomas Nutt was jailed for life in August after being found guilty of murdering his new bride Dawn Walker on their wedding night.

He was ordered to serve a minimum of 21 years behind bars.

A bid was made earlier this month under a scheme for sentences thought to be too lenient.

The Attorney General’s Office has now considered the case and has decided not to refer Nutt’s case on to the Court of Appeal.

It means that the minimum term he must serve remains the same.

The 46-year-old scrap metal dealer packed Miss Walker’s body in a suitcase at the marital home in Shirley Grove, Lightcliffe, shortly after they married on October 27 last year.

During the trial at Bradford Crown Court, jurors were shown CCTV footage of Nutt wheeling her body off in the case before dumping it in bushes.

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