Micah Urquhart stabbing: Waqar Younis has 25 year minimum sentence upheld at Court of Appeal

A ‘DANGEROUS and wicked’ Bedfordshire killer who has already won a cut in his jail term has been refused an even bigger reduction by top judges.

The Court of Appeal slashed 20-year Waqar Younis’s minimum sentence from 28 to 25 years in January.

But the thug, of Queens Close, Luton, came back for more despite his leading role in the ‘particularly heinous’ murder of 19-year-old Micah Urquhart.

Younis brutally stabbed the teenager outside his home in Hastings Street, Luton, in a “revenge attack” carried out with another man.

He was handed a life sentence at Luton Crown Court, in March 2014, after he was convicted of murdering “extremely vulnerable” Mr Urquhart.

He was then ordered to serve at least 28 years behind bars before he could even apply for parole.

On January 30, the Appeal Court in London reduced that to 25 years in light of his youth.

But his barrister, John Burton QC, today argued that was still not low enough.

Refusing a further cut, however, Lady Justice Macur said Younis had murdered ‘a young vulnerable man with a knife’.

The attack was ‘premeditated’ and ‘particularly heinous’ and the trial judge described Younis as ‘dangerous and wicked’.

Younis, then just 18, was on bail for wounding when he killed Mr Urquhart and also had a previous conviction for robbery, the court heard.

The judge, sitting with Mr Justice Walker and Judge Martyn Zeidman, said she had ‘not been persuaded’ that the 25 year minimum was too long.

“In these circumstances no further reduction is made,” she concluded.

The victim’s flat had been used by Younis and Paul Desmond Lynam, 19, for the selling and smoking of cannabis, the court heard in January.

The pair launched their savage attack on the night of November 12 2013. Younis was armed with a knife and used it stab Mr Urquhart to death after ambushing him.

Lynam, of Midland Road, Luton, was found guilty of manslaughter and handed 10 years’ detention.