In a happy change from it’s usual reporting the rapidly approaching “The End Times” due to CO2, the BBC has actually reported on something relevant and important to our lives (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66417103).
When the BG ascribes the soubriquet “Unfortunate” as a prefix to the surname of a political personality it is now taken by the internet community that the skids are well and truly under this person! However, today is an exception as we ascribe this soubriquet to a much wronged gentleman who is a native of Grimsby in Lincolnshire. This is the unfortunate Mr Andrew Malkinson. Mr Malkinson was in the wrong place at the wrong time and wrongfully arrested, charged, convicted and incarcerated for a very serious crime he did not commit and for which there was no forensic evidence on which to convict him (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Malkinson).
Following the quashing of his conviction a furore erupted when it was announced that the compensation procedure extant at the time deducted living costs that would have been incurred throughout the time the wrongly convicted was incarcerated from the amount of compensation awarded.
Furthermore when compared to overseas jurisdictions English and Scottish courts can appear to be parsimonious when it comes to compensation. The FACT is that due to the policy of not releasing life sentence prisoners if they continue to protest their innocence (on the basis one cannot be remorseful if one refuses to accept one’s guilt) Mr Malkinson was incarcerated for 17 years.
Natural Justice demands an adequate and generous sum in compensation for the years Mr Malkinson has been robbed of and which he cannot get back. We hope English Justice will provide this.
NB: Of course, we must not forget the victim of the crime Mr Malkinson was wrongfully convicted of. The victim must now face the FACT that the person who committed the offence has not be brought to justice.