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Wrongly convicted Barry George loses compensation bid

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John:
I find this totally abhorrent.  Barry George has learning difficulties and was stitched up by incompetent Met cops.  He is being discriminated against again just because no-one else has been convicted for the murder.


Barry George, wrongly convicted of the murder of BBC TV presenter Jill Dando, has lost a bid for compensation.  Two High Court judges ruled he failed to meet the test which would entitle him to compensation.

Mr George, 52, who spent eight years in prison before being cleared after a retrial, was one of five test cases to decide who was now entitled to payments.




http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21195269

John:
At the High Court, judges Lord Justice Beatson and Mr Justice Irwin ruled that Mr George and three others had failed this test.

Ian Glen QC, appearing for Mr George, had argued that the decision to refuse damages to a maximum of £500,000 was "defective and contrary to natural justice".

He said Mr George's unanimous acquittal by a jury at his retrial, the Ministry of Justice had unfairly and unlawfully decided he was "not innocent enough to be compensated".

But for more than 30 years those acquitted on retrials in similar circumstances had been compensated, said Mr Glen.

Not to treat Mr George's acquittal as a miscarriage of justice "went behind the decision of the jury that acquitted him" and failed to take account of the fact that no safe conviction could ever be based on the evidence against him, the QC said.

But the High Court judges said: "There was indeed a case upon which a reasonable jury properly directed could have convicted the claimant of murder."

Padgates staff:
It's bad but he doesn't meet the criteria. Its hard enough to get it when you meet it,like the case of Tony Steel.
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/1758027.family_want_ripper_probe_into_killing/
http://www.roughjusticetv.co.uk/steelfilm.htm

Maybe he should sue his defense team.

John:

--- Quote from: Joanne on January 25, 2013, 06:27:04 PM ---It's bad but he doesn't meet the criteria. Its hard enough to get it when you meet it,like the case of Tony Steel.
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/1758027.family_want_ripper_probe_into_killing/
http://www.roughjusticetv.co.uk/steelfilm.htm

Maybe he should sue his defense team.

--- End quote ---

The Law and more specifically the criteria is an ass!  If there ever was a case of a wrongful conviction, Barry George's case is it.

Padgates staff:
I agree, the law's an ass. He's been let down by so many eople, so many times. In the 'crimes that shook Britain', one of the neighbours of Jill Dando said everyone in the area knew Barry George and really he needed more support, which when you look at him, he does. he changed his name to like Steve Majors, Barry Bulsara etc, wanted to join the SAS or something but at the same time, he's not really a threat to people. He just needed support or an advocate to help him.

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