Wrongly convicted persons

[Carol Anne]

Can you imagine anything worse than being a genuinely innocent and wrongly convicted prisoner, losing the best years of your life say from 25 to 40 and suffering the privations of prison life, rotten food and no privacy. Then on your glory day at long last the truth prevails and you are released without a stain on your character, can any amount of money ever be enough to compensate you? Well the government seem to think so when they awarded the son of a friend of mine �500,000
and then had the nerve to deduct �80.000 for board and lodgings!!! Leaving him with the price of a 2 bedroom semi.
How perverse can this be?? Well it happened and he has no right of appeal. Apparently they base the amount on loss of possible earnings, and as an unskilled chap that meant his life is worth less. But to charge him for the time he was forced to live these miserable years really is unbelievable. There's something rotten in the state of Britain.

[tubeway]

You would get a pretty good 2 bedreoom seni for �420,000 though.
It is a rotten thing to happen - and a good arguement against hanging - his best bet is to try to get on with his life. Feeling bitter - although understandable - will not help anybody.
He was paid �28,000 a year after his deductions which is not bad and a good lump sum to start off his new life.

[Mamjet]

He was probably guilty. There's no smoke without fire IMHO. Anyway, the food's not too bad. And �420,000 is a lot of money, Christ, what are you complaining about? What do you suggest, building a time machine, going back in time and letting him out early??? Get over it.

[DONNAKEBABUK]

Carol Anne. I completely agree with you, it is a dreadful state of affairs and all too often are things like this coming to light. I myself am standing trial pretty shortly for an offence which I KNOW I have not committed. Granted it is only at S39 Assault and if wrongfully convicted I will serve a maximum 6mth prison sentence. What this will do to my little girl however, and all the other things in my life will not address the fact that I will have served time for something I have not done, let alone some 25 years out of 40. It is okay for those to think - okay it is 28k per year but what about the joys of a family this person could have had and all the other things in life that he could have had, holidays, hobbies, interests, the outdoor world and all the rest rather than being cooped up in an awful cell. It is appalling. I wish your friends son luck.

I have to say though, I have just bought a 4 bed detatched stone cottage in the Country, double glazing, central heating and the works for �190,000.00.

[Oneeyedvic]

No smoke with out fire - words fail me

[Mamjet]

Punctuation seems to have failed you as well. Here, have some inverted commas and a full stop:

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[Carol Anne]

You know absolutely nothing about this case Mamjet. ......Idiot

[Carol Anne]

Donnakei,You have hit the nail on the head. Life is far more than day to day living and existing. X was robbed of the joy of raising a family in his young years, the joy and comfort of personal relationships, and of all these tiny little things we take for granted. Prison victuals are sourced by price alone and not quality, so no matter what delicious sounding meal is chalked up on a menu board, in reality its invariably revolting. The first thing he wanted when freed was hot buttered toast and pot of decent 'civvie' tea. Cold toast, cheap marge and prison 'tea' were all he'd been able to have for 15 years.
Im sorry to hear of your unfortunate situation, for that moron to make a blanket statement of no smoke without fire, is beyon belief. Let us hope for his/her sake that it never happens to them or loved ones. Be brave and hold your head high

[Mamjet]

Be brave and hold your head high, you might get let off on a technicality.

[kaystella]

Hello everyone,

IN SUPPORT OF THE FALSEY ACCUSED AND WRONGLY CONVICTED....

thanks to all who have signed my petition.At least 200 signatures were required for the government to take notice of my petition. It has now reached the required amount but the more signatures, the better, before 19 April so if you can get more signatures for me it would be greatly appreciated.

I feel the law needs to be changed to help the falsely accused and wrongfully convicted who have committed no crimes but are serving indefinite sentences nonetheless.Since the introduction of the indeterminate sentence for public protection in 2005 it's possible for a person to be detained for up to 99 years if they do not address their offending behaviour. What hope then if you are an innocent person wrongly convicted!? How can anyone be expected to feel remorse and guilt for crimes that never happened? This outrageous sentence must be scrapped as it is adding to the already overcrowded prison system and is placing many innocent people in a bureaucratic limbo from which there is no escape.

The man I love is one of these people and I know he is morally innocent of the crimes he has been accused of .

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/OUTRAGEOUS/

Many thanks

[Carol Anne]

Well Mamjet, what pearls of wisdom would you cast upon the above?