Video: David Cameron: Supreme Court 'stood up for democracy' in prisoner ruling The Government made a "compelling and forceful" argument against giving prisoners the vote, David Cameron said at Prime Minister's Questions after two convicted murderers had their appeals thrown out. Seven Supreme Court justices in London dismissed challenges brought by Peter Chester and George McGeoch, who have been fighting for the right to vote while behind bars. Chester, who is in his 50s, is serving life for raping and strangling his seven-year-old niece Donna Marie Gillbanks in Blackpool in 1977. McGeoch, from Glasgow, is serving his life sentence at Dumfries prison for the 1998 murder of Eric Innes in Inverness.