Does Colin Stagg deserve this size of compensation payout ?
Any answers to this type of question , relating to an issue of this nature , is always going to be subjective .
How do you put a value for compensation for someone who endures the following :-
- Being banged up for 13 months - and villified by the press and public for 15 years .
- Waking each morning and not being able to do things , that free citizens take for granted , each day .
- Waking up after a bad dream , where you are banged up for a crime you didn't commit - to find that the dream is a reality .
- Knowing that you are innocent , but powerless to do anything about it
- thinking of other miscarriages of justice , where people have being banged up for years , before being proven innocent - and thinking to yourself constantly that you may spend a similiar period incarserated , before being shown to be innocent . Or worse still never having the injustice , come to light .
All I can say is that i hope to god that I dont find myself in a similiar situation - I would go bananas and would have to be transferred to one of those institutions , where the staff wear white coats .