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UK Labour Ministers say miscarriage of justice victim must pay 'bed and board' for the years he spent in prison (nation.cymru)

submitted 2 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

It’s obvious people have not read the article which refers to cases where the decision was made years ago under the Tory government. Future bed and board payments are being reviewed and expected to be scrapped.

In this case he was awarded £650k compensation and £37k was deducted from that.

I understand the line in the sand where the country has been bankrupted and just can’t revisit every bad decision made over the last 15 years and pay up, there isn’t the money or the court time.

Unfortunately this article is written to stoke hate for the current government, I’m just offering the alternative bias.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago

Headline seems either very poorly done or maliciously motivated then

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah we could really do with an article from a more mean line reputable news source. I don't know the validity of this one because I've never heard of it before.

[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It’s a non-news story so no papers are talking about it right now except this one trying to score points from it.

The Guardian ran the story last year when the guidance actually changed during the Malkinson compensation case.