If This Criminal Was 'unlawfully' Locked Up, Why Isn't The Person Who 'unlawfully' Locked Him Up, Not Facing Charges?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4399248/Jailed-illegal-immigrant-gets-27-000-compensation.html

[jackthehat]

Because it was 'the system' which saw him unlawfully imprisoned rather than any one person.
But then you already knew that...

[EDDIE51]

He was locked up to prevent him absconding as the artical says!
However he appealed that he was locked up too long and was successful.
There is a fixed amount of compensation for each day that someone is 'unlawfully' detained in jail so he got the daily rate for the number of days he was detained after completing his sentence.

[Gladeian]

Let us hope this illegal immigrant is made to pay his legal and court costs out of his £27,000.

[emmie]

does seem perverse getting compensation, it wouldn't be an individual i expect but the system that he has fallen foul of.

[youngmafbog]

To hell in a hand cart ....

No more common sense anymore.

[hereIam]

Soft touch Britain AGAIN !

[Peter Pedant]

because as you well know
civil law is different to criminal .....

he sued for compensation in a civil suit
this appears to be statutory false imprisonment but it doesnt matter

and if you win in the civil courts you get money
but they dont generate criminal charges

but of course you are old enough to know this AOG

BA answer to AOG for making up a yet another question which can be summed up as a complete waste of time
no I mean hypothetical question to stimulate debate - -- sozza