have to pay back their living costs because they would have had to pay them if they hadn't been jailed? And how would you feel if it was you?
2007-03-14 01:01:59 · 14 answers · asked by micky45 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
One was given compensation of £990k
For 18 yrs
Another 506k for 18yrs
And the other one £670k for 10yrs but now they've got to give 25% back for food and board/lodgings.
2007-03-14 01:37:09 · update #1
I think the idea was they received two sets of compensation - one was cash in recognition of just how crap it is to be locked up for no reason for all those years, losing time with your family, the emotional trauma, etc.
The second payment was designed to compensate them for the wages they would have earned if they'd been out of prison. The decision today was that if they're receiving money for the wages they would have earned, it's only fair it's subject to a deduction for the money they would have spent on rent and food.
So there are two payments, one for the injustice and one purely on the maths. I'm not saying that's right, it's just how they did it.
If you really want to know all the facts then why not read the House of Lords judgment that sparked off the news story?
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200607/ldjudgmt/jd070314/obrien-1.htm
2007-03-14 07:53:04 · answer #1 · answered by Joe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These people would have worked in jail to earn their living costs, working for 40 hours a week for less than £20 to buy "priveleges" like cigarettes. Last thing I heard that the compensation for people wrongly convicted and given jail terms was running at about £300 a day which would give them about £1.1m compansation each. Me? Im not really sure. 10 years is a big chunk of a life but then £1.1m is probably more than I'll ever see in a lifetime and how would you set about rebuilding your life after 10 years? You've opened a big can of worms there!
2007-03-14 01:27:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-01 23:47:11 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good heavens no. The state deprived them of 10 years of freedom, involuntarily. Charging them room and board for this involuntary experience would revictimize them.
2007-03-14 01:04:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
somethings not right keeping them there for ten years when they`re done nothing
usually the innocent prisoners here get to serve at least 20
2007-03-14 01:13:44 · answer #5 · answered by keny 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they deserve about £1,000,000 each for having their freedom taken away from them for nothing!
or to able to commit a crime that would get you 10 years and be left off with it as they have served the time
2007-03-14 01:04:44 · answer #6 · answered by Ni 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No way in Hell -OR law, by the way. Were it my case? I would calmly come out and sue their asses for enough money to party comfortably all the days of the rest of my life!
2007-03-14 01:23:46 · answer #7 · answered by Arsengal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO!! Don't you think they have suffered enough!! They didn't choose to go to prison!! If it was me I would be devasted if i ended up in prison for a crime I did not commit!! Especially for 10 years!!
2007-03-14 01:08:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man they gonna sue and get back wages plus some from UK
2007-03-14 01:10:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
ive been to jail,what living costs,prisons are given £1.38 a day to feed prisoners,i think they should be given a million pound a day compensation for what theyve been through,and those that sent them there should be jailed themselves so they know what its like
2007-03-14 01:36:09 · answer #10 · answered by rebel 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋