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[Adam]

Sion Jenkins certainly did not deserve compensation.

He was found guilty. The juries at two further re trials were
not able come to a verdict. So he was released.

Barry George eventually got released. After failed appeals. But his compensation claim was rejected.

[Adam]

Does anyone know of cases where convictions have been quashed and the person got a big compensation pay out ?

To be honest 99.9%:of convicted criminals are guilty. The case has gone through the police, DPP and the courts for gods sake. But some find a loop hole and technicality after years of trying.

If huge compensation was paid to every released prisoner, virtually every prisoner would apply. There is already a huge amount applying, resulting in the CCRC being slow to process cases.

[Adam]

Gerry Conlon got half a million in 1997.

Someone asked me what I thought of the Renault 5. I said 'I think their innocent'.

[Caroline]

Does anyone know of cases where convictions have been quashed and the person got a big compensation pay out ?

To be honest 99.9%:of convicted criminals are guilty. The case has gone through the police, DPP and the courts for gods sake. But some find a loop hole and technicality after years of trying.

If huge compensation was paid to every released prisoner, virtually every prisoner would apply. There is already a huge amount applying, resulting in the CCRC being slow to process cases.

Paddy Hill (one of the Birmingham Six) received over a million pound and Stephan Kisko would have received £500,000.00 but I think he died before being paid. Poor Stephan, a truly sad case!

[maggie]

Paddy Hill (one of the Birmingham Six) received over a million pound and Stephan Kisko would have received £500,000.00 but I think he died before being paid. Poor Stephan, a truly sad case!

And he's so traumatised he struggles every day to manage the outside world even 20 years later. 
He was so institutionalised he's never recovered and I bet he'd rather have been a poor free man than suffered that injustice to become a millionaire.

[Adam]

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13918358&ved=0CCUQFjAAahUKEwjY7qbr-fvGAhWGFtsKHda8DZU&usg=AFQjCNGOWvw4W-sBnLkM1_7SiFvczBiDIQ&sig2=BAqjbVNAXtHHMODD5n7Tww


Lots of money paid out to prisoners. But virtually zilch for a convicted criminal showing he was innocent.

[Adam]

2011 -

Four prisoners got between £125,000 and £62,000 in personal injury cases. Three got £25,000 for "false imprisonment".

[Caroline]

And he's so traumatised he struggles every day to manage the outside world even 20 years later. 
He was so institutionalised he's never recovered and I bet he'd rather have been a poor free man than suffered that injustice to become a millionaire.

I can imagine - ruined life! Poor old Stephan only wanted to go home to his mother but she died before he was released. He wouldn't have managed well without her which is probably why he died only a year after release.

[maggie]

I can imagine - ruined life! Poor old Stephan only wanted to go home to his mother but she died before he was released. He wouldn't have managed well without her which is probably why he died only a year after release.

Shameful.

[Jane]

Caroline/Maggie, what was done to that poor man was inhuman beyond words. His world must have fallen apart when his mum died. I just pray that there were those inside with enough decency to protect from the worst aspects of prison life and those who profit from it.

[Caroline]

http://thetruthnews.info/Who-Was_Stephan_Kiszko.html

[Adam]

It is correct that compensation should only be paid to released prisoners who were almost certainly innocent.

Huge compensation pay outs to everyone who gets released on a technicality will just create more crime. Criminals believing if they get convicted they may still released released and a pay off. Perhaps even more than they robbed in the first place ! Virtually all will still be guilty anyway.

[susan]

I can imagine - ruined life! Poor old Stephan only wanted to go home to his mother but she died before he was released. He wouldn't have managed well without her which is probably why he died only a year after release.

Caroline
that is so sad he never got home to his Mother

[Adam]

Some criminals are already rich and will be able to hire top lawyers to try to find a loop hole.

The tax payers are already paying for him to stay in prison. Don't see why they should also pay for him getting released on a technicality.

[David1819]

Does anyone know of cases where convictions have been quashed and the person got a big compensation pay out ?

To be honest 99.9%:of convicted criminals are guilty. The case has gone through the police, DPP and the courts for gods sake. But some find a loop hole and technicality after years of trying.

If huge compensation was paid to every released prisoner, virtually every prisoner would apply. There is already a huge amount applying, resulting in the CCRC being slow to process cases.

Its estimated that 4% of people sentenced to death in the US were innocent.