THE dad of a man brutally murdered before his body was dumped in a wheelie bin and burned has spoken of his disappointment after his killers had their jail terms slashed.

Jamie Dack’s father Eddie Dack said he and his family had been left to serve their own life sentences following the violent torture and murder of Jamie three years ago - and nothing would ever change that.

He spoke after the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday that the jail terms handed to Lee Nicholls, Andrew Dwyer-Skeats, Ryan Woodmansey and Donna Chalk were too high.

However Lord Justice Treacy threw out a bid by Chalk and Dwyer-Skeats to have their murder convictions quashed – bringing relief to Jamie’s family who say they now need to move forward with their lives.

As reported by the Daily Echo, the gang of four were jailed for life for the parts they played in the violent murder of 22-year-old Jamie who was held in a squat in Bevois Mews where he was bound, gagged and beaten with fists, feet and bottles.

Jamie was then forced to clean up his own blood – and kicked every time he failed to do as he was told – until Nicholls, described as the ringleader who had confessed to murder while giving evidence on the stand, delivered the fatal blows with a knife.

His accomplices – who were all found guilty by a jury following a retrial - were all party to the violence and the disposal of Jamie’s body in the early hours of Easter Sunday in April 2012.

Firefighters made the gruesome discovery in bins at Empress Road Industrial Estate, initially thinking they had found a mannequin on fire.

Delivering his judgement, Lord Justice Treacy ruled that Nicholl’s minimum term of 34 years was “manifestly excessive” despite the leading role he played in murdering Jamie, and cut his term to 31 years.

To “maintain proportionality” with that, he also reduced Dwyer-Skeats’ sentence from 32 years to 29 years, and Ryan Woodmansey’s from 30 to 27.

Receiving the largest cut in sentence was Chalk, who was 20 and “vulnerable” at the time of the killing for which she was handed 25 years in prison. She will now serve 20 years after the judge described her as “a damaged individual” who could be distinguished from the other three.

Speaking after the ruling, Eddie told the Daily Echo: “I have mixed emotions – relief that they all remain convicted murderers but also disappointment that they have had their sentences cut.

“The only comfort for me is that their sentences remain minimum terms and there is no guarantee that they will be released even after all those years.

“We think about what happened to Jamie every single day and we must live with that and now try and move forward with our lives.”

Detective sergeant Bryan Carter said the force was “pleased” that Chalk and Dwyer-Skeats had their appeals against conviction refused, but added that a decision to slash the sentences of all four killers would not “lessen" what they had done.

He said: “Jamies family have not only had to endure what happened to him but have also had to go through two lengthy trials since then and now an appeal hearing. We hope that the written confirmation that the convictions were correct will bring them at least a sense of justice.”