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GarveyLives said:
While the Independent Office for Police Conduct reconsiders PC Read's claim that he was acting in “self-defence” when he held pensioner Errol Dixon round the neck and punched him in the face causing him to suffer a broken nose, fractured cheekbone and eye socket and a displaced septum ...

Errol Dixon: Pensioner punched by police now battling cancer as he seeks justice

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"Our officers understand their actions will be scrutinised and use of force must be proportionate and reasonable.

"We recognise the impact that incidents like this have on community confidence, which is why independent scrutiny, to establish what happened and to identify any opportunity to do things differently, is so important."
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IOPC acknowledges that the wrong legal test was applied in this case, and is re-evaluating the whole incident for a new decision.
 
equationgirl said:
Following on from my earlier post, Andrew Malkinson has had his conviction quashed

www.bbc.co.uk

Andrew Malkinson's rape conviction quashed after 20-year fight

Andrew Malkinson, who served 17 years in prison, says he feels he had been "kidnapped by the state".
www.bbc.co.uk

Greater Manchester Police are 'truly sorry' for the 'rare' 'miscarriage of justice'.

I hope he sues them for every penny, to say his conviction was unsafe is stretching the definition of the word massively.

The Chief has offered to apologise to him in person. Like that's going to magically make everything better.
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He'll get a payout, which won't go anyway near enough to compensate for the life-shattering injustice he's suffered. Then as a final fuck-you the Home Office will take a large chunk back to give to HM Prison Service to pay for them having had to give board and lodgings to a man who wasn't supposed to be there.
 
Bahnhof Strasse said:
He'll get a payout, which won't go anyway near enough to compensate for the life-shattering injustice he's suffered. Then as a final fuck-you the Home Office will take a large chunk back to give to HM Prison Service to pay for them having had to give board and lodgings to a man who wasn't supposed to be there.
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His lawyers have already noted that any such compensation is years away. How do you compensate some for kidnapping them for 20 years? That's his words by the way.

I have always found it insulting that a large chunk of anyone's compensation is retained to pay for their 'board and lodging,'.
 
Bahnhof Strasse said:
He'll get a payout, which won't go anyway near enough to compensate for the life-shattering injustice he's suffered. Then as a final fuck-you the Home Office will take a large chunk back to give to HM Prison Service to pay for them having had to give board and lodgings to a man who wasn't supposed to be there.
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On BBC Radio 4 lunchtime news there was an interview with one of the three Cardiff men pardoned after being wrongly convicted of the murder of a newsagent.
He spent 11 years in prison and after being released had to fight for compensation. He was paid £600,000 but had to repay 15% to the Prison Service for 'bed, food and clothes'.
As a result of the trauma he has had to deal with mental health issues and been unable to work since being released and is living on benefits now.

He pointed out that 'guilty' people do not have to pay anything after their sentence, only people who have later been found to be innocent.
 
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tony.c said:
On BBC Radio 4 lunchtime news there was an interview with one of the three Cardiff men pardoned after being wrongly convicted of the murder of a newsagent.
He spent 10 years in prison and after being released had to fight for compensation. He was paid £600,000 but had to repay 15% to the Prison Service for 'bed, food and clothes'.
As a result of the trauma he has had to deal with mental health issues and been unable to work since being released and is living on benefits now.

He pointed out that 'guilty' people do not have to pay anything after their sentence, only people who have later been found to be innocent.
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Yeah, it's such a twisted logic; the prison service exists and is funded to incarcerate those guilty of crimes, therefore if you are later found to be innocent then they wasted funds incarcerating you and seek to claw those funds back. I mean, what kind of heartless accountant scum-fucker thought of that?
 
tony.c said:
Apparently it was then taken to the European Court of Human Rights which upheld the UK Law Lords ruling.

www.bbc.co.uk

Andrew Malkinson: Why are some wrongfully convicted prisoners charged jail living costs?

Money for "board and lodging" in jail is sometimes deducted from former prisoners' compensation.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Time for a new challenge, I would say .

The argument I'd that there's a big difference between bed and board and true living costs. But when someone's life is irreparably damaged through false imprisonment they usually lose their livelihood and their ability to pay true living costs, not to mention losing their home. Their life is blown up through no fault of their own and then they are charged for the privilege?

It's fucking perverse.
 
No only is the compo in the circumstances tiny compared to the harm caused, plus it getting clawed back, no one ever gets done for the stitch up, even though the stitch up is a crime, bare minimum misconduct in a public office. And what must the rape victim be going through right now, years after she’d (hopefully) managed to move on? All cos of a bunch of bent bastards operating in a bent system.

No justice/no peace.
 
600 grand for 17 years is about 35,000 a year. So a reasonable professional salary, to account for loss of earnings. But loss of earnings isn't the main thing about being in prison. That would be the loss of autonomy, dignity, selfhood. Things that cannot be replaced. Add to that the knowledge that the criminals who locked you up face no penalty, and the criminal who actually committed the crime you were locked up for has lived those 17 years not just free but safe in the knowledge that nobody was looking for him.

And then from that pitiful excuse for compensation they claw money back? How the people who make these calls can sleep at night, gods only know.
 
Pickman's model said:
often people who are victims of miscarriages stay in prison longer than they might if they were in fact guilty
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Andrew Malkinson had a minimum rec of 7, but served 17 as he couldn't be released until he completed sex offender courses, which he couldn't do cos he wasn't a sex offender, so served an extra 10 before being let out on a licence that was so strict he couldn't do much at all on the outside and it would have stayed that way for life had the conviction not been quashed this week.
 
"The Ministry of Justice said deductions from compensation were sometimes made when there had been "substantial savings" made on living costs while a person was in custody."


How about we save the justice minister and the mandarins at the ministry a fucking fortune by separating their heads from their bodies?
 
Press Association report (via MSN and archived since I can't find a direct link)

‘Concerning’ rise in people dying in or following police custody, watchdog says - PA Media

The number of deaths in or following police custody has seen a “concerning” increase over the past year, surpassing the average recorded over a 10-year period, a watchdog has said. Figures from the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) show the number of deaths in or following police custody has surged from 11 in the previous year to 23 in 2022/23. The figure is the highest since 2017/18 when there were also 23 fatalities and is also the joint highest in 16 years, with the previous record being 27 deaths reported in 2006/07.
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The IOPC report is here:
Annual deaths during or following police contact report - 2022/23 - Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC)

Obviously one would hope that none of these deaths are related to the equally 'concerning' increase in sexual assault by Police Officers.
 
tony.c said:
Met Sergeant Laurence Knight guilty of sexual assault.


www.standard.co.uk

Met Police officer guilty of sexually assaulting woman in sea after stag do

Sergeant Laurence Knight was cleared of raping the woman, a stranger whom he met in Brighton city centre in the early hours of July 17 2021.
www.standard.co.uk www.standard.co.uk
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Former Met Sergeant Laurence Knight jailed for two years.


www.bbc.co.uk

Brighton: Officer jailed for sexually assaulting woman on stag do

Laurence Knight met the woman, a stranger, during a night out in Brighton city centre in July 2021.
www.bbc.co.uk
 
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