Wrongly convicted prisoners pay board and lodging on release!

I remember hearing about the board and lodgings charges when some of the wrongly imprisoned IRA men were released. It really adds insult to injury, doesn't it?

And yet we house/keep asylum seekers for nothing ?.
This country has gone totally bonkers.

timetogo2016

And yet we house/keep asylum seekers for nothing ?.
This country has gone totally bonkers.

Well said.

timetogo and sharon

I think this comment is irrelevant.

Horrible comment from those two posters timetogo and Sharon You have no idea what happens in peoples lives

Terrible terrible miscarriage of justice nothing can ever make up for losing 17 years and he needs a very very large compensation which won’t touch the sides of all that time
Nothing can help he’s lost a very very big part of his life which he can never ever get back Poor poor man (and his family)

Poor man. This just seems to add insult to injury. He should be compensated a large amount, charged nothing for his imprisonment, and an enquiry into that whole investigation and conviction needs to happen.

I would be surprised if bed and board were deducted, particularly in cases like this.

Just heard that there is a delay in awarding the infected blood scandal compensations. Rishi Sunak has defended this delay. The post office case has been mentioned. We drag our feet and there is no excuse because " it has always happened and is happening in other countries". It's shameful and cruel.

Appalling miscarriage of justice. I really admire him for refusing to admit guilt even if it meant having to spend another 10 years in gaol. He has integrity and courage and I hope he has a wonderful life from now on..

Greta

Just heard that there is a delay in awarding the infected blood scandal compensations. Rishi Sunak has defended this delay. The post office case has been mentioned. We drag our feet and there is no excuse because " it has always happened and is happening in other countries". It's shameful and cruel.

nothing to do with this thread! start a new one.

I was also wondering, how has his time spent in prison affected his NI contributions and how would this impact on his State Pension when he reaches the age to claim it? I realise this is a bit random but he surely won't have been granted NI credit would he?

NotSpaghetti

timetogo and sharon

I think this comment is irrelevant.

Any excuse to do a bit of migrant bashing unfortunately….#seems the government plan to blame migrants for everything is working….

"Nothing to do with thread! start a new one"
Sounds a bit sour, lemsip.
I just drew parallels. When it comes to compensate people we seem to look for ways to delay. Perhaps this poor man will be compensated quickly.

lemsip likes to dictate who posts what, where and when

MayBee70

NotSpaghetti

timetogo and sharon

I think this comment is irrelevant.

Any excuse to do a bit of migrant bashing unfortunately….#seems the government plan to blame migrants for everything is working….

Exactly so. This thread is about injustice. Posters dragging asylum seekers into it lack a sense of irony, or the ability to see the injustice so many seeking refuge have suffered

ParlorGames

I was also wondering, how has his time spent in prison affected his NI contributions and how would this impact on his State Pension when he reaches the age to claim it? I realise this is a bit random but he surely won't have been granted NI credit would he?

Interesting point, ParlorGames

If he had the wherewithal could he sue for wrongful arrest and imprisonment?

That should help I would have thought.

Having to pay for 'board and lodging' after all he has gone through is a kick in the teeth

He was imprisoned for 7 years initially, but because he kept protesting his innocence - they kept lengthening his sentence 😮.

The reason he was kept in prison was because the police failed to disclose evidence that they had, which almost certainly means he would not have been imprisoned.

Absolutely scandalous.

The question really is - was the police action criminal?

The other outrageous thing I have discovered is that it used to be the case that once the court of appeal accepted your innocence, then compensation was automatically granted, but this wretched government stopped that and now insists that you have to “prove” your innocence before compensation is paid.

So Malkinson still has hurdles to jump.

Disgusting

The court deciding that a conviction was unsafe is not the same as saying the convicted person is innocent.

Whitewavemark2

He was imprisoned for 7 years initially, but because he kept protesting his innocence - they kept lengthening his sentence 😮.

The reason he was kept in prison was because the police failed to disclose evidence that they had, which almost certainly means he would not have been imprisoned.

Absolutely scandalous.

The question really is - was the police action criminal?

His defence barrister perhaps failed too because he or she should have demanded to see the evidence which could have cleared him.

If the police or prosecution refused to release that evidence or denied knowledge of it then whoever did so can be sued.

Germanshepherdsmum

The court deciding that a conviction was unsafe is not the same as saying the convicted person is innocent.

I think it would be safe to say that, as there was evidence linking another person to the crime and none whatsoever linking him, that Mr Malkinson is innocent.

Board and lodging he was forced into by an incompetent jury and judge.

Will they re compensate him for the trauma he has gone through? For his name being absolutely dragged through the mud? Will they re compensate him for that?

How silly CrochetBliss. Don’t you understand that the evidence presented was , it now transpires, defective? The jury can only make a decision on the basis of the evidence before them, and the judge sentences according to the jury’s verdict and the evidence he has heard. How were either the jury or the judge incompetent? If you had been a jury member you might have been one of the majority who decided he was guilty.