As this was a premeditated and planned murder, I would think that life imprisonment would be the minimum sentence.
It's the premeditation that swings it for me.
AOG you wrote:
the lovely expensive house they lived in, one has got to ask why?
He and his sons could have lived a happy and comfortable life, together with the lovely Helen Bailey.
I thought the same thing. I assumed that he may have had another relationship on the go, but I would have expected this to be revealed during the trial.