This infuriates me, but to be honest its getting so ridiculous that this kind of thing is getting pretty normal.
2007-03-20 08:38:15 · 12 answers · asked by jj26 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
This is in the UK and i heard it on radio 2 on monday. This is how the uk works.
2007-03-20 08:49:37 · update #1
Do you have any specifics?
2007-03-20 08:41:47 · answer #1 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, some people were wrongly convicted of murder and served between 10-18 years before they were exonerated and released.
Brothers Vincent and Michael Hickey of Birmingham, spent 18 years in jail for paperboy Carl Bridgewater's murder.
Michael O'Brien from Cardiff spent 11 years in jail for a separate murder.
The three were deducted money from their compensation for what lawyers called "living expenses" but what the court agreed was for life necessities.
Judges ruled by a four to one majority that they must pay back 25% of their compensation.
absolutely ridiculous......this is the world gone barmy !!!!!
2007-03-20 16:43:48 · answer #2 · answered by The Unknown Soldier 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is absolutely ridicules, I hope these people have sued for wrongful imprisonment as well as loss of income and their families for all hardships incurred as a result.
What's happening, peerages are sold and no-one gets done. Home Office is "not fit for use" but carries on regardless, what is this Country coming to?
2007-03-20 16:12:59 · answer #3 · answered by wanderer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
UK is probably one of the unfairest countries in the world. Do they really think the French or Germans would tolerate such things? I think not. It's time for the EU Court of Human Rights to take up the torch of liberty and shine it into the dull dead faces of our ignorant overpaid judges and politicians - screw the lot of them.
2007-03-20 16:00:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the story is, three men convicted of crimes they have since been cleared of due to advances in technology have been given compensation payments, 25% of which is being withheld for board and food whilst in prison, in one case one man was in there since the eighties.
is it just me or are we returning to a 'sheriff of Nottingham, robin hood' type of era where we're being taxed for absolutely everything. for crying out loud they actually considered a tax for collecting our bins, a service which we already pay for in council tax. and now they're talking about charging us for non-recyclable rubbish, it's not our fault what manufacturers package our food in!
it takes a lot of gall to charge someone for being wrongly imprisoned. hundreds of years ago if a person was put in prison they had to pay for their time there, if they had the cash they could have a pretty easy time of it, even paying other people for serving their time for them. If they didn't they were often left to die. that system was abandoned for good reason, and now the labour party is bringing it back with a vengeance, ' not only are we going to charge you, but we'll even back charge you when you're innocent' even now the labour party is getting ready to choose our next prime minister, I wonder who that could be, cough...Gorden Brown cough. and if he insists on this ultra tax society after Blair is gone, he'd better not get comfortable in the P.M's seat.
2007-03-20 16:36:08 · answer #5 · answered by Lucy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no it really is true and it ridiculous. i can see why the government wants to charge them as they don't want to have paid for unnecessary punishment but these poor people should be compensated not given a bill. it is infuriating as you say. the world has gone mad!
2007-03-20 15:45:41 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it's pretty insane.
But nobody (in the profession) ever said the law had to make sense.
2007-03-20 15:42:10 · answer #7 · answered by coragryph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What get's my goat is having to pay to keep the guilty ones in, when they sit on their butts all day doing nothing, not exactly paying for their crimes are they? it seems we are!!
2007-03-20 15:50:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where are you. Here in the USA they would be getting money for being wrongly convicted.
2007-03-20 15:42:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
what? thats crazy.
no way is this legit, prison is paid in taxes. and if someone is wrongly convicted, they get money, not the other way around.
2007-03-20 15:46:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is the LIEberal way; imprison the innocent and let the guilty go free. If, the innocent is released, then make him or her pay for her time in prison.
This is outrageous!
2007-03-20 15:42:11 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋