Innocent Warren Blackwell Charged For Prison Bed And Board
THERE are plenty of things you’d expect to have after three years wrongful imprisonment - an overpowering sense of injustice, a class A drug addiction and maybe a predilection for large men called ‘Tiny’.
But you would not expect a £7,000 bill for board and lodging?
But Warren Blackwell, the victim of an appalling miscarriage of justice, got exactly that.
The 37-year-old was originally banged up in 1999 for rape on the evidence of a woman who had a history of making false claims against innocent men. Blackwell was only cleared last year at the Appeal Court.
Now the innocent man is to be charged almost £7,000 for his prison sentence, which will be deducted from whatever compensation he receives.
The flummoxed Blackwell says: “I can’t believe it, they’ve got to be joking. They are going to charge me for my porridge! I’ve had a letter stating that they have accepted my claim for compensation, and that the actual amount is to be decided by an assessor. But they are going to deduct £6,800 for living expenses incurred during my three years and four months behind bars.”
Blackwell, not surprisingly, is considering an appeal. However, with the Lords upholding the principle of charging “bed and breakfast” last year, he may have to turn to the European Court Of Human Rights for any justice.
Although £7,000 for three years in a B&B? Sounds reasonable to me.
Posted: 28th, May 2007 | In: Strange But True Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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January 18th, 2008 at 2:01 am
Hello everyone,
This is in support of all those falsely accused and wrongly convicted.
Please could you sign my petition to parliament by using the link below, if you agree with the content. If you could also forward the link to as many people as possible it would be greatly appreciated.
I feel the law needs to be changed to help the falsely accused and wrongfully convicted who have committed no crimes but are serving indefinite sentences nonetheless. At least 200 signatures are required for the government to take notice of my petition. There are 134 signatures to date but the more the better. Since the introduction of the indeterminate sentence for public protection in 2005 it is possible for a person to be detained for up to 99 years if they do not address their offending behaviour. What hope then if you are an innocent person wrongly convicted!? How can anyone be expected to feel remorse and guilt for crimes that never happened? This outrageous sentence must be scrapped as it is adding to the already overcrowded prison system and is placing many innocent people in a bureaucratic limbo from which there is no escape. One of these people is the man I love, who is 100% Innocent. British Justice has failed him although we naively asumed it existed to protect law-abiding citizens like him.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/OUTRAGEOUS/
Many thanks
August 7th, 2007 at 11:42 am
First you must understand. There is NO justice system. There is a legal system which protects and supports cronies in control, allowing the raping of defenseless individuals, in order to perpetuate the No Justice Legal System, insuring the continuance of the Cronie Power Cartell.
The first step to a better society is to boost the world protein shortage, by taking crazy people, those that cause undue difficulties and hardships, career criminals and other derelicts of our society, and use them for animal feed.
May 28th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Far too sessible - send the man down!
May 28th, 2007 at 9:37 am
I can see why the authorities might want to recoup the cost of this, but surely rather than charging the inmate, they should be charging the person who’s perjury caused them to be wrongfully imprisoned!