THE FATHER of murdered mum-of-three Chantel Taylor held a church roof-top vigil this week to protest at a judge's decision to reduce the sentence of his daughter's killer.

Anthony Taylor is incensed at the appeal court's ruling that reduces Stephen Wynne's minimum life term from 21 years to 18.

Wynne attacked Chantel with a meat cleaver and then dismembered her body with a saw. He dumped her remains at Royden Park and Bidston Tip.

Chantel's funeral and burial service take place this Friday.

The killer of Chantel Taylor was warned by her grieving family this week: "Don't even think about life outside jail we'll make sure you're never released."

Chantel's mother Jean spoke out after it was revealed that ex-squaddie Stephen Wynne's minimum life sentence tariff had been reduced on appeal from 21 years to only 18 just days before Chantel's family finally get to hold a funeral for the murdered mum-of-three.

Wynne was jailed in January after pleading guilty to murdering the 27-year-old in March, 2004.

The drug-crazed labourer had attacked Chantel in the neck with a meat cleaver and then dismembered her body with a saw, eventually claiming to police that he attacked her after she had stolen his heroin.

He then dumped parts of her body separately at Royden Park in Frankby and at Bidston Tip.

Last week, however, Mrs Justice Robb at London's Criminal Appeal Court slashed his jail term saying "as nasty as this case was", the sentencing judge had sought too long a jail term when considering its aggravating and mitigating features.

She said Wynne's guilty plea, his assertion the murder was not premeditated and that he only kept the meat cleaver in his bedroom in case he was burgled should all have been taken into account.

But the ruling caused uproar among Chantel's friends and family. Her father, Anthony, was so incensed he has already made two rooftop protests on Friday and Sunday demanding justice for his late daughter.

On Sunday, he climbed onto the roof of Holy Cross Church in Hoylake Road, Birkenhead, and hung banners declaring, "Life should mean life" and "Wynne you won't win".

Meanwhile, Chantel's mother Jean has now vowed to devote her life to ensuring Wynne is never allowed out of jail.

She told the Globe: "How in God's name can anyone see any sort of mitigating factors in what Wynne did to my daughter?

"He butchered her with a meat cleaver, cut up her body and hid it in his loft, and then dumped the remains in different parts of Wirral. He has never told the police exactly where he left her and we have to live with that.

"We know that six months after he murdered Chantel he held a Hallowe'en party for his young son in his garden, all the while knowing that Chantel's clothes and the cleaver and saw were hidden nearby.

"How can anyone say that there are mitigating circumstances in such a horrific crime? It's madness absolute madness."

Chantel had been working occasionally as a prostitute to fund a heroin habit that was sparked by deep depression brought on by the sudden death of her beloved brother, Stephen.

She went missing from her home on the night of March 13, 2004, and Jean spent 18 months campaigning to find her.

But her hopes of finding Chantel alive were shattered last summer when Wynne, 28, was arrested after setting fire to the Wirral Islamic Centre in Birkenhead following the July 7 bombings.

Police found pieces of Chantel's clothing hidden in the garden of his home in Elmswood Road, Birkenhead along with the meat cleaver and saw.

The few existing remains of Chantel pieces of bone and some DNA will be interred at a burial in Landican Cemetery this Friday.

A funeral service takes place beforehand at midday at Our Lady's Church in Cavendish Street, Birkenhead, and a wake will be held at the Woodside Hotel after the burial service.

Jean Taylor has invited any Globe readers wishing to pay their respects to attend both the funeral service at Our Lady's and the wake.

She has also asked anyone wishing to send flowers to order them in pink and white "Chantel's favourite colours" and send them to Susan Porter Funeral Directors, 41-43 Arrowe Park Road, Upton.

She added: "Now we have to concentrate on burying Chantel and reminding ourselves and everyone else what a beautiful, vibrant woman and mother she was.

"It's our time to remember Chantel - and not the monster that took her away from us."