Wrongly imprisoned man billed for time in prison.
Wrongly jailed after a woman cried rape, Warren Blackwell applied for compensation for his three years in prison.
Blackwell, 37, said: "I can’t believe it, they’ve got to be joking. They are going to charge me for my porridge!
"I’ve had a letter stating that they have accepted my claim for compensation, and that the actual amount is to be decided by an assessor. But they are going to deduct £6,800 for living expenses during my three years and four months behind bars.”
I don’t know about in the UK, but in the US, someone who’s been wrongly imprisoned often times has to fight to have their criminal record purged of the crime which they didn’t commit. I hope he doesn’t have to deal with that as well.
Quartz
June 6, 2007, 11:45am
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Paging casdave . ISTR he’s previously explained that there’s a good reason for this.