Things I “hate” about the UK – Part 2

There’s a guy who admitted to commiting a crime 27 years ago. Consequently, he’s spent all that time in prison, where everybody agreed that he should be. Read more about the story here.

Well, basically, now it has been proven that he did not commit that crime (through DNA tests… CSI have lots to answer for!) and he has been freed. What annoys me about the whole situation, and something that could only happen in the UK (and maybe the States too), is that his lawyers are now looking for compensation for all the years that he was wrongly imprissoned!

Excuse me? He admited the crime! He said he’d done it! He WANTED to go to prison! If anything, he would have to pay the relatives of the poor dead girl who have believed for all these years that justice had been done, and now all their fears and wounds have been reopened.

And yes, somehow I believe that the British Justice system will grant him quite a substantial compensation for having spent all his adult life in prison.

Bollocks.