Tregaskis fails in bid to cut life sentence

Friday 4th July 2008, 2:57PM BST.

A JERSEYMAN who is serving a life sentence for murder failed in a High Court bid this week to secure an early review of his life sentence.

Rickie Michael Tregaskis (40) kicked Michael Josey to death in Mevagissey, Cornwall, in March 1997. Nine years ago he was jailed for life, with a recommendation that he serve a minimum of 20 years, after a court heard that he had ‘delighted’ in the attack.

Tregaskis (pictured), who was 29 at the time of the murder, had been out of prison only five weeks after serving time for committing a vicious assault in Jersey.

Yesterday Tregaskis found out that his bid to have the minimum sentence reduced had failed. Having heard submissions, Mrs Justice Rafferty concluded that she could see no reason to disagree with the minimum term imposed at the original trial.

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