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March 15, 2004
The Price of Justice
Isn't British justice wonderful?
I'm speechless.WHAT do you give someone who's been proved innocent after spending the best part of their life behind bars, wrongfully convicted of a crime they didn't commit?
An apology, maybe? Counselling? Champagne? Compensation? Well, if you're David Blunkett, the Labour Home Secretary, the choice is simple: you give them a big, fat bill for the cost of board and lodgings for the time they spent freeloading at Her Majesty's Pleasure in British prisons.
On Tuesday, Blunkett will fight in the Royal Courts of Justice in London for the right to charge victims of miscarriages of justice more than £3000 for every year they spent in jail while wrongly convicted. The logic is that the innocent man shouldn't have been in prison eating free porridge and sleeping for nothing under regulation grey blankets.
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Posted by John at March 15, 2004 05:24 PM
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Funny how they donit charge guilty people this lodging fee?
People are tolerant of Blunkett because he's blind, but he's a psychopath.
No sane person could possibly justify such reprehensible treatment of people who have already been unnecessarily dehumanised.
We're living under a Labour government that is no better than the Tory government before them, the sooner we get rid of them, the better.
Posted by: Martin at March 16, 2004 09:28 PM
I can think of nothing else to say, except: Unbelievable. I read right to the end of that article and sat in stunned disbelief.
I really don't see the point of such a charge or how anyone can see it as fair. I dispair of this country sometimes.
Posted by: Simon B at March 20, 2004 10:42 PM