Jeremy Bamber launches final bid to overturn life jail sentence All three killers have previously argued in the European Court of Human Rights that ordering someone to spend their entire life in jail without parole amounted to degrading and inhuman treatment. In January, judges in the Strasbourg court ruled that condemning people to die in jail was not "grossly disproportionate" and that each of the three had committed "particularly brutal and callous murders." In 2009, Bamber also lost a Court of Appeal challenge against his whole-life tariff. However, in July this year, he won the right for his case to be heard again after an appeal was granted to Vinter. Today's one-day hearing was also an appeal into the cases of Douglas Vinter, convicted of stabbing his wife in February 2008, having already served nine years for stabbing to death a work colleague in 1996 and Peter Moore, convicted of killing four gay men in 1995. Bamber has always maintained his innocence. All three received whole-life jail orders, meaning they can only ever be released at the discretion of the Home Secretary on compassionate grounds, such as terminal illness or if "seriously incapacitated." The appeal comes just a week after the London Court of Appeal, in a separate case, ruled jailing Britain's most dangers prisoners did not breach their human rights. The judges upheld a whole-life sentence given to David Oakes, convicted of torturing and shooting his partner and their daughter in Essex. The appeal verdict was seen as a warning to the Strasbourg judges that courts in England and Wales want to keep the option of whole-life sentences. The Grand Chamber verdict will not be announced until next year.