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John Paul Wootton
The minimum jail term for dissident republican John Paul Wootton in connection with the murder of Constable Stephen Carroll has been increased.
At a hearing at the Court of Appeal, senior judges ruled that due to aggravating factors in his still undefined role in the murder, his tariff will be increased by four years.
They said that Wootton's cohort, Brendan McConville, will not have his sentence changed.
Barra McGrory, Director of Public Prosecutions said both men had received unduly lenient terms.
Constable Stephen Carroll was murdered in March 2009 when he was ambushed while responding to an emergency call in Craigavon.
Wootton, from Lurgan, was 17 at the time of the murder.
At the hearing, Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan said: "The mitigation for youth in the case of a person who was approximately two months short of his 18th birthday at the time of the commission of a serious violent offence of this nature is limited.
"We have taken into account the effect of double jeopardy arising from his exposure to this reference and in the circumstances we substitute a tariff of 18 years."
