Uomo che ha trascorso 17 anni in prigione dopo essere stato erroneamente condannato per colpi di stupro per un risarcimento “offensivo”
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/man-who-spent-17-years-32067652
di weregonnamakit
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“The current maximum cap on compensation of £1 million was introduced in 2008” For 17 years??
£58K for each of your life lost and spent in prison while everyone thinks you are a rapist? Not enough by a long way probably some of the people who wrongly put him in prison are on better pensions than that. Needs fixing.
What’s the correct price for freedom? I understand there has to be some limit, but having your freedom taken due to a wrongful conviction must be horrific. There are so many things… Personal relationships, mental health, career progression, inability to save for retirement/invest, and who knows what else.
I don’t think there should be a cap. I believe it should be a generous amount per year, tax free.
New? DNA evidence. Hopefully the new evidence is that DNA science has improved since 2008.
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He’s right. I’ve always said it should be £1m for every year taken. £58k is just a decent salary. He’s not only been effectively working 24 hours a day, he’s been forced to do it and kept in a compound the entire time. For no reason. This guy should be able to come out and party every day for the rest of his life and never set foot in a workplace he doesn’t want to be in.
Massive respect to this guy. He was told to plead guilty and reduce his sentence (if he had done this he would’ve been out much earlier). I think even an innocent person would be tempted by this but maintained that he was not guilty and he served the time.
Now that he’s been released and found innocent. He’s been asked to pay HMP for the “room and board” out of the compensation. He campaigned the government to scrap this and won.
17 years of his life. He’s not had a chance to start a career or anything.
This guy deserves to have a fantastic quality of life at the expense of the justice system for wronging him.
We’ll probably spend more on legal fees fighting this guy than just paying him a decent sum
Wasn’t this the guy where they tried to charge him for ‘board and lodgings’ for his 17 years and knock it off the compensation?
It has noting do to with the cash, they have stolen his life, almost as bad as killing him. hes never getting that back.
He should be compensated for that, they illegally imprisoned him poor guy.
He’s got 30 odd years left, it should be a million minimum, it shouldn’t be a livable amount ,it needs be a wonderful life amount that would be the right compensation.
I’ve seen police officers and teachers being awarded more for having their feelings hurt ,that is a disgusting amount
There is no way to determine a fair an equitable compensation policy that would be acceptable to everybody. He can’t get the years back. We can’t give them back. We can’t even stop something like that from happening again. All we can do is help him to start rebuild a new life.
I would like to think that in 17 yrs I’d have accumulated more than £1.3 mill in total assets. Typically I’d have had a wife, kids too, a job or a business and the house would be paid for. He’ll have none of that and likely won’t get married or have kids at his age. On top of that we’d need help to re-adjust to life outside.
If I was to quantify all that I’d guess a minimum £3.5 mill to start.
pay him the past 17 years of combined salaries from all the people who worked to convict him and hold him in prison
76 grand a year though.
Justice is priceless. The money he got will make his life good the only way he can get justice is if the rat who accused him starts their 18 year sentence tomorrow.