Well Done The Procurator Fiscal

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Today it was announced that Stewart Kidd, 27, has had his conviction for culpable homicide quashed.

He was sent to prison for 7 years and was released after serving that sentence in 2003.

His conviction was quashed on the grounds that the Procurator Fiscal (the Crown Prosecution Service's Scottish cousins) did not disclose evidence at his trial that may have exculpated him. Yes, that's right, the Procurator Fiscal had evidence that may have proved the man was not guilty of the offence. They let him go to jail for 7 years.
 
Nothing in my opinion.

However, he may get "damages", but remember the scandal that came out in 2003? The Home Office decided it was appropriate to charge those people who had been wrongly convicted, imprisoned and subsequently had their convictions quashed, rent for staying in their prison cells.

The guy who had spent 25 years in jail for a murder he did not commit (his name escapes me) was paid compensation minus his dig money!
 
I can't see how the HO can possibly extract rent money. They're not landlords who sign a shorthold or long-term agreement of tenancy with tenants! In return, any prisoners working in the kitchens, the laundries, the gardens or cleaning, etc. should demand and receive the market rate for such jobs, with a percentage for holiday time which can't be taken, PAYE, etc. Prisoners unable to be offered jobs or unable to take up those on offer must surely be claiming 'benefits' in the meantime, right?
 
I remember one of the Birmingham 6 was on Newsnight complaining that the compensation they had been offered was derisory. I can't remember how much it was but it was along the lines of £200 a week for each year in prison. They had some ponce on from the tory government who stated that that was the amount they would've earned had they not been imprisoned.

Excuse me, but were they only in prison 40 hours a week and, even if they were, would anybody want to work among dangerous nut jobs for a labourer's wage? Is it incidental that they were deprived of seeing their children grow up or even having a relationship and children in the first place. And what about all the suffering of their families?

Jeremy Paxman pointed out that the money the tory ponce earned in a year, by sitting on "advisory panels" to various outside interests (for a few hours per month), amounted to more than the compensation order. That shut that cnut up :lol:.

What amazes me is that no one ever seems to be brought to justice as far as the "fitting up" is concerned.
 
Yes, HT, that's been vexing me, too. There are now so many cases where the police have done the fitting up, or where evidence has deliberately been witheld which could have exonerated someone, that surely these people should now be up before the Judge? Why not take THEIR savings and property from them and award them to the mis-jailed men/women, not so much as an award, but as a deterrent to the fixers? If you fitted someone up, later found innocent, the thought that you'd lose all of your material worth would surely act as some sort of brake?
 
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