Crime does pay
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How much! He must have been sleeping with the judge.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13873301/...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13873301/...
The state is required to incarcerate all sorts of nasty people. It clearly has a duty of care to ensure that they don't knife each other to death, and it appears that mistakes were made here.
But the state should not be paying this person £ 5.5 million of taxpayer funds as compensation. The amount is insane.
I don't say that because of the individuals past record. I say it because it is utterly incomprehensible that any prisoner in this situation would be awarded such an amount.
But the state should not be paying this person £ 5.5 million of taxpayer funds as compensation. The amount is insane.
I don't say that because of the individuals past record. I say it because it is utterly incomprehensible that any prisoner in this situation would be awarded such an amount.
oddman said:
At the time, his attacker was only 24 days into a life sentence, imposed for the brutal knife murder of John Comer, 45, in Lawford, Essex, in December 2017
That's one s
t hot risk assessment that put perp on kitchen duty with a 9" knife 
. Not surprised he's been paid out.
Yes, it is no surprise he has received compensation, the surprise is the level. Any reasonable compensation for loss of "earnings" would be less than a tenth of that amount. That's one s
t hot risk assessment that put perp on kitchen duty with a 9" knife . Not surprised he's been paid out.If there is an element of 'loss of earnings' in that sum then something is very wrong.
This is a career burglar with 31 previous convictions already, before the one he was locked up for when attacked, so any loss of earnings payout would have to be compensating him for not being able to carry out more burglaries.
This is a career burglar with 31 previous convictions already, before the one he was locked up for when attacked, so any loss of earnings payout would have to be compensating him for not being able to carry out more burglaries.
JagLover said:
oddman said:
At the time, his attacker was only 24 days into a life sentence, imposed for the brutal knife murder of John Comer, 45, in Lawford, Essex, in December 2017
That's one st hot risk assessment that put perp on kitchen duty with a 9" knife . Not surprised he's been paid out.
Yes, it is no surprise he has received compensation, the surprise is the level. Any reasonable compensation for loss of "earnings" would be less than a tenth of that amount. That's one s
t hot risk assessment that put perp on kitchen duty with a 9" knife . Not surprised he's been paid out.
If the rationale for the award was based on the injuries it would still be generous but make more sense.
I'd have thought something like a state pension and whatever assistance with housing etc he would get if he "retired" never having worked. You can assume he would have gone straight and found some sort of employment, but you can't assume he'd have made a fortune. A 4% drawdown on £5m is £200k a year, more than the PM, topically enough. And he still has nearly half a million to get himself a house.
That brings me to my other problem with this though. Quite aside from the grotesque waste and perverse message, I suspect this will ruin him anyway. He won't invest in a sensible house and manage his money to give him a decent income for life, because he's a yob who hasn't earned a penny of it. He'll blow it in a few years on fancy holidays and drugs then probably start thieving again.
The trauma of that sort of assault must indeed be awful but I'm not convinced that loads of other people's money in any way makes up for it.
That brings me to my other problem with this though. Quite aside from the grotesque waste and perverse message, I suspect this will ruin him anyway. He won't invest in a sensible house and manage his money to give him a decent income for life, because he's a yob who hasn't earned a penny of it. He'll blow it in a few years on fancy holidays and drugs then probably start thieving again.
The trauma of that sort of assault must indeed be awful but I'm not convinced that loads of other people's money in any way makes up for it.
ChevronB19 said:
You think burglars should be subject to extra judicial murder? Bloody hell.
Isn't that a risk they take from irate householders every time they go burgling? Not very common I grant you but its a risk they seem ok with. So the risk of being caught, locked up and murdered by a murderer who you are sharing a cell or the kitchen with is not much higher 
I take the risk of death every time I get in my car. A very low risk, but a risk just the same, and yes I will get compensated if I suffer life changing injuries caused by someone else on the road, assuming THEY were negligent and I can prove it and they have insurance to cover it.
Let this guy sue the murderer for damages, not the state, he put himself in that risky situation by his own unlawful actions.
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