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£800 cost to Tax Payers?
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Killer compensated for damaged nose clippers.:o
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-27185544
What next a public collection to send him on holiday to recover from such a traumatic experience poor dear..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-27185544
What next a public collection to send him on holiday to recover from such a traumatic experience poor dear..
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Apparently £500 of that was because the Guards (or Prison) didn't apologize to the prisoner for losing them.
I think that unless we are going to condone poor treatment of prisoners then they should be allowed to sue for lost possessions.
He would have only got £350 if they had appologised, and would have got a lot less if they had replaced his lost items.
It was posted on his behalf by his mates.
Changed to what?
It sounds like they basically didn't treat his possessions at all correctly and both lost and damaged a number of items including various personal bits and pieces such as photographs as well as electricals including a stereo and an alarm clock, not just some nose clippers.
He may have been a prisoner but he still has the right to have his personal possessions properly and safely stored and moved with him from prison to prison.
They break it, they pay for it and give compensation. Arguably because he's in prison that sort of stuff matters a whole lot more. When you don't have anything small things like a tube of toothpaste or a bottle of drink becomes significant, let alone literally all of your worldly possessions.
Well for a start, I'm all for replacing the goods that were lost, but the majority of the £800 was compensation.
Now from a legal point of few I can understand some compensation to replace the items lost. But the figures dont add up ?
£224.97 for damage to his stereo, alarm clock and nasal clippers. Not sure where this judge is shopping but that seems a lot even if you had them brand new.
He was also awarded £90 after items including a carton of cranberry juice, protein powder and toiletries were lost, which he claimed left him "stressed" Are you kidding me a carton of cranberry juice how can this be claimed !!! Judge is mental and should be locked up as well.
Judge Hickman awarded him a further £500 to compensate him for lost photographs and personal items, making £814.97 in total. Not sure what personal items he had but this is a prison why would you have anything of that value on the inside ?
I can see how they should have replace some of the items lost but not to the tune of 800. The problem is some Judges just dont live in the same world we do. They really have no idea how much things costs so you get large differences between cases in the sums offered.
After a leaky waste pipe in the council house, next door, caused my bathroom ceiling to collapse, loosened all the bathroom wall-tiles, ruined the bathroom carpet, and peeled all the wallpaper off my living room wall, ruined the bathroom carpet and required the wall to be re-plastered, I got a total of £165 compo' off the council.
And that was a final offer, after their initial offer was £50 to cover part of my insurance excess.
It would be inhuman to prevent a convict from communicating with friends and family (and counter productive actually since it would further isolate them from society). It would be utterly unacceptable to prevent innocent people from posting status updates to Facebook.