Court rules innocent  prisoners have to pay board and
lodgings on compensation

The scandal continues on those who run our legal
system and the injustices that flow from the daily use
of perjury,lies and deceit of judges and their pawns
corrupt legal aid lawyers

Bridgewater two fight cash ruling

Two men who spent 18 years in jail for the murder of
Carl Bridgewater, before being cleared, are fighting
to be allowed to keep all their compensation.
Vincent Hickey, 49, and Michael Hickey, 42, of
Birmingham, were jailed in 1979 over the boy's murder
at Yew Tree Farm.

A court ruled in 2004 that the cousins should pay back
what they had saved in "board and lodgings" while in
jail.

In an appeal, their barrister told Law Lords it was
against common sense to deduct "living expenses".

'Generous compensation'

The appeal is being held before five Law Lords at the
House of Lords.

Ian Burnett QC, representing the Independent Assessor
is to argue the deductions were "just and reasonable".


On Monday, Barrister Philip Engelman told them: "It is
revolting to the ordinary man's sense of justice to
have a wrongfully convicted person effectively being
asked to pay for his board and lodgings during the
time he was incarcerated."

The barrister is also representing Michael O'Brien,
who spent 10 years in prison after being wrongly
convicted in 1998 of the murder of a Cardiff
newsagent.

The Hickey's had their convictions quashed at the
Court of Appeal in 1997.

Michael Hickey was awarded =A3990,000 in compensation
and Vincent Hickey =A3506,220, subject to the
deductions.

Mr O'Brien was awarded =A3670,000 subject to similar
deductions.

"We say there should be generous compensation as a
matter of domestic law and international law and it is
an antithesis of such generosity to deduct from the
men the costs of their accommodation," Mr Engelman
said.

Paperboy Carl, 13, from Stourbridge, was shot dead in
September 1978 at Yew Tree Farm, Wordsley.

The case has been adjourned.


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