Martin Shipton A Welshman who spent 11 years in jail for a murder he didn’t commit says he is “shocked and appalled” that UK Labour Ministers have decided that he and other miscarriage of justice victims should make “bed and board” payments towards the cost of their imprisonment. Michael O’Brien and two other men were […]
It’s obvious people have not read the article which refers to cases where the decision was made years ago under the Tory government. Future bed and board payments are being reviewed and expected to be scrapped.
In this case he was awarded £650k compensation and £37k was deducted from that.
I understand the line in the sand where the country has been bankrupted and just can’t revisit every bad decision made over the last 15 years and pay up, there isn’t the money or the court time.
Unfortunately this article is written to stoke hate for the current government, I’m just offering the alternative bias.
Headline seems either very poorly done or maliciously motivated then
Yeah we could really do with an article from a more mean line reputable news source. I don’t know the validity of this one because I’ve never heard of it before.
It’s a non-news story so no papers are talking about it right now except this one trying to score points from it.
The Guardian ran the story last year when the guidance actually changed during the Malkinson compensation case.