Wrongly convicted Barry George loses compensation bid

[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]

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.

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.

[John]

This was yet another case where the now disbanded Forensics Science Service made a complete pigs ear of the analysis and came up with the wrong conclusions.  To say the man is not innocent enough is a complete farce.

Lets hope the Supreme Court see this decision for what it really is!

[Padgates staff]

It wouldn't suprise me if the present him with a bill for 8 years of accomodation and food next and bill him for any courses he did 

[John]

Barry George has today lost his appeal in his compensation bid after being wrongly convicted of the murder of BBC television presenter Jill Dando.

An appalling and damning indictment of British justice.

[John]

Barry George loses bid to claim up to £500,000

Barry George, who spent eight years in prison after being wrongly convicted of the murder of TV presenter Jill Dando, has lost his legal battle for compensation as a victim of a "'miscarriage of justice".

The latest legal move at the Court of Appeal followed the dismissal of his claim by two High Court judges in January.

Lord Justice Beatson and Mr Justice Irwin had rejected his claim that the Justice Secretary unfairly and unlawfully decided he was "not innocent enough to be compensated".

They ruled that the Secretary of State was "entirely justified in the conclusion he reached".

Lord Justice Richards, sitting at the Court of Appeal in London, today rejected an application by Mr George for permission to challenge the January decision.

He announced that the 53-year-old - who was present in court for the ruling - had "no realistic prospects" of success on appeal.

Mr George went to the High Court seeking a reconsideration of his case which could have opened the way for him to claim an award of up to £500,000 for lost earnings and wrongful imprisonment.

www.itv.com/news/story/2013-07-09/barry-george-loses-compensation-bid/

[John]

George compensation ruling is a 'travesty of justice'

Barry George's sister Michelle Diskin has described the High Court's decision to halt her brother's compensation bid was a "travesty of justice".

“There never was any viable evidence against Barry. This whole case from April 2000 until today has been a smoke and mirrors exercise designed to placate a worried public, and give the impression that justice had been done.

Well neither the Dando family, nor our family, has seen any justice in the past 13 years."

www.itv.com/news/story/2013-07-09/barry-george-loses-compensation-bid/

[Redblossom]

you only have to read the comments in the daily mail article to see how nearly 100% of readers find  this digusting at best

The judges in this country and the law are worse than an asses ar se, actually its just the former, as the law is just a bunch  of words they can interpret at their despicable will


Shame the people involved in his fit up are the same two guys, hamish and redwood, leading the cold case review into Madeleine Mccann!
Shudder

nuff said, hopefully they will leave their corrupt practices behind this time

Disgusted from middx signing out, Barry George should take this to the ECHR, because this country just cannot jail innocent people and get away with it and also say sorry, tough, your loss, you lost eight yrs of your life and a bunch of other stuff, numpty scrotes

[Nicholas]

Apparently Barry George was questioned by police over the Rachael Nickel case?

[Geraldine]

Hello everyone. My opinion is that the police just wanted someone - anyone - done for this murder because of who Jill Dando was. A definite two-tier system in play here. Look at how the Met dealt with the case of Stephen Lawrence just 6 years earlier. They could hardly be bothered investigating. Shocking all round.  I hope Barry George is doing OK.

[John]

Hello everyone. My opinion is that the police just wanted someone - anyone - done for this murder because of who Jill Dando was. A definite two-tier system in play here. Look at how the Met dealt with the case of Stephen Lawrence just 6 years earlier. They could hardly be bothered investigating. Shocking all round.  I hope Barry George is doing OK.

I would agree to the extent that they were under tremendous pressure to find the individual responsible.  Hauling in Barry George however and attributing such a cunning and brutal crime to him was in my view highly questionable but despicable conduct.  It gave the phrase grasping at straws a whole new meaning imo.  George's subsequent release but failed absolute exoneration lost the Met and the English Justice System much credibility imo.

[Geraldine]

It remind me of how they tried to fit up Colin Stagg for the Rachel Nickell murder.  A local "oddball" who they thought fitted the bill.  Luckily the judge threw out the case against Stagg. Another dent to their credibility and disgusting when you look at how they failed Stephen Lawrence and no doubt many other people who deserved equal diligence and care but cos they were not "high profile" cases they were treated like rubbish.