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Jill Dando 'killer' loses Compensation Bid.

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  • #2
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Ah man, I hate it when they don't go into proper details, but the idea of...
    But Lord Justice Beatson and Mr Justice Irwin ruled he had "failed the legal test" to receive an award.

    ...being needed is nuts. He appealed a conviction and was seemingly unjustly locked up for a long time. What the hell need is there for him to be tested when he's appealed a wrongful conviction?


  • #3
    MusicalMelody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 148 ✭✭MusicalMelody


    I feel so bad for this guy, he is also a victim in all of us this. So unjust not to be awarded compensation for ruining an innocent persons life!


  • #4
    BeerWolf
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    Sick :|


  • #5
    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/09/barry-george-loses-fight-jill-dando-compensation

    apparently, he's been deemed 'not innocent enough' to have a realistic chance of compensation.


  • #6
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,037 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    I thought the Serbs whacked her over a bad holiday review


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  • #7
    Banjo String
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    Rip Jan Dildo.


  • #8
    Christ the Redeemer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 463 ✭✭Christ the Redeemer


    What a ****ing disgrace.


  • #9
    I Heart Internet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭I Heart Internet


    I think he has family in Ireland (Cork I think). He may even live here himself now.

    I would hate to think it's becasue he's been deemed "not innocent enough" as someone suggested - in my book you're innocent or guilty, end of.

    What might be at play here is that while he was and is innocent, there was no actual "miscarriage of justice" - everything was done "by the book and correctly" but the evidence convicted the wrong man. If the police had been negligent or abusive in their investigation it would be a different matter.


  • #10
    Jiggers77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83 ✭✭Jiggers77


    Its bad form. How can you "Not be innocent enough". My heart really goes out to this guy. His lifes been ruined! So unfair


  • #11
    wandatowell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    dd972 wrote: »
    apparently, he's been deemed 'not innocent enough' to have a realistic chance of compensation.

    Jesus thats mad isnt it?



    Does that phrase make sense to anyone?


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  • #12
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    wandatowell wrote: »
    Jesus thats mad isnt it?



    Does that phrase make sense to anyone?

    Yeah, it's what they call unreasonable doubt.


  • #13
    Corcaigh84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 604 ✭✭✭Corcaigh84


    He called in to my uncle's shop in Cork last weekend. My father popped in and was trying to get his brother's attention, but there was this fella at the counter, and my uncle looked preoccupied.

    He (Barry George) was telling him all about who he was, when he was in the news, etc. Not right in the head obv. My uncle was unsurprisingly a bit freaked out.


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