The first same-sex inmates to ever marry each other in a British prison are both serving life imprisonment for hate crime murders against gay men.
The Marriages Act of 1983 allowed prisoners to apply to be married, and the legalization of same-sex marriage in the U.K. in March 2014 made it legal for inmates in the same prison to marry each other.
Marc Goodwin (left) and Mikhail Gallatinov
He was given a minimum sentence of 18 years and it is projected he will serve another 10, the Guardian reported.
He was sentenced to a minimum of 20 years, which was upheld in 2009. He will be considered for parole next year.
The judge at his trial called the killing "cold-blooded, well planned, callous, chilling and apparently motiveless." He called Gallatinov "a dangerous young man [who] present[s] a considerable risk to the public in the future."
The jury took only an hour to convict him, and in-prison psychologists have labeled him "psychopathic," the Manchester Evening News reported.
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