UK: If they put you in jail, and you are innocent, they want you to pay for the cell

**ThePornPusher** · 03-14-2004, 08:41 AM

That is SO fucked up. I would wipe my ass with the bill and send it to them.

ThePornPusher

**directfiesta** · 03-14-2004, 08:47 AM

Thought it was a joke!

World is really fucked up!

**body** · 03-14-2004, 08:48 AM

That sucks, DAMN

**Roger** · 03-14-2004, 08:49 AM

Unbelievable, how can this guy go on? 25 years in prison. I'd expect him to spend the next 25 years insulting the idiots who put him there.

**kmanrox** · 03-14-2004, 08:50 AM

god save the Queen!!

ahaha

**Fletch XXX** · 03-14-2004, 08:55 AM

holy shit.

"Blunkett?s fight has been described as ?outrageous?, ?morally repugnant? and the ?sickest of sick jokes?, but his spokesmen in the Home Office say it?s a completely ?reasonable course of action? as the innocent men and women would have spent the money anyway on food and lodgings if they weren?t in prison. The government deems the claw-back ?Saved Living Expenses?"

**Nicky** · 03-14-2004, 08:55 AM

Talk about twisted!! I would fucking kill those fuckers that put me there and than call it even cause ive already been in jail for 25 years......

**VirtuMike** · 03-14-2004, 09:00 AM

NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!

**Manowar** · 03-14-2004, 09:10 AM

this country is getting more and more fucked up by the day

**Tipsy** · 03-14-2004, 09:13 AM

That's what happens when you put a blind guy who also happens to be mentally challenged in charge. Not a problem the US will ever face though - they'd have electrocuted the bastards by now. Hard to get money from a dead man

**ListYourPorn** · 03-14-2004, 09:15 AM

too right why should we pay for people who screw up, ?

**chemicaleyes** · 03-14-2004, 09:17 AM

That is just plain taking the piss!
Seems the story is not in any major newspapers in the UK or on any major UK radio stations - unless I have missed this?

**beemk** · 03-14-2004, 09:18 AM

what a fucking joke. i would send them a counter bill for the 25 years of missed work.

**beemk** · 03-14-2004, 09:18 AM

what happens if he doesnt pay? do they put him back in jail?

**chemicaleyes** · 03-14-2004, 09:19 AM

Originally posted by ListYourPorn
too right why should we pay for people who screw up, ?

have you read the article?

**Sarah_Jayne** · 03-14-2004, 09:19 AM

Blunkett is more torry than the torries.

**Sarah_Jayne** · 03-14-2004, 09:20 AM

Originally posted by chemicaleyes
have you read the article?

or the thread title?

**Tipsy** · 03-14-2004, 09:22 AM

Originally posted by chemicaleyes
That is just plain taking the piss!
Seems the story is not in any major newspapers in the UK or on any major UK radio stations - unless I have missed this?

Can't find it anywhere but that's unsurprising. Both in the US and the UK the governments are trying their best these days to make sure the general population of the country is the last to know an awful lot of shady stuff.

Sounds like the money will come out of the compensation owed, so not a direct bill as such. Either way though it's very, very wrong. I'm trying to find a less sensationalist story with more facts. Would be interesting to know how long this has been in place.

**Roger** · 03-14-2004, 09:23 AM

Now that innocent people have to pay for the time they spent in jail, it'll be easier for the government to emprison anyone.

**tbabe** · 03-14-2004, 09:23 AM

holy shit, is that a real paper? I cant believe anyone would be stupid enough to propose something like that. Its not like they chose to go to prison.

Hmmmm, i wonder if they knock some money off the bill for every time they got raped.

**Tipsy** · 03-14-2004, 09:24 AM

Originally posted by sarah_webinc
Blunkett is more torry than the torries.

The same is currently true of the entire labour party

**Sarah_Jayne** · 03-14-2004, 09:27 AM

Originally posted by tbabe
holy shit, is that a real paper? I cant believe anyone would be stupid enough to propose something like that. Its not like they chose to go to prison.

Hmmmm, i wonder if they knock some money off the bill for every time they got raped.

blunkett says a lot of things without asking the other people in his party. Everyone I know who knows him (in London you know people that know people) say he is a right bastard and it is starting to show.

**Paul Markham** · 03-14-2004, 09:41 AM

I would rather wait for it to hit the proper newspapers first. There are many papers anti Blair in the UK, I wonder why it's not in the Mail or the Express?

**tbabe** · 03-14-2004, 09:48 AM

Originally posted by sarah_webinc

blunkett says a lot of things without asking the other people in his party. Everyone I know who knows him (in London you know people that know people) say he is a right bastard and it is starting to show.

ya, every country has politicians like that.

Frankly, i would expect a proposal like that from a republican or other right winger. But isnt the labor party a left leaning party?

**chemicaleyes** · 03-14-2004, 09:51 AM

Originally posted by charly
I would rather wait for it to hit the proper newspapers first. There are many papers anti Blair in the UK, I wonder why it's not in the Mail or the Express?

Same here, I am making a few inquiries.

**Sarah_Jayne** · 03-14-2004, 09:58 AM

Originally posted by tbabe

ya, every country has politicians like that.

Frankly, i would expect a proposal like that from a republican or other right winger. But isnt the labor party a left leaning party?

suppose to be

**chemicaleyes** · 03-14-2004, 02:05 PM

Originally posted by charly
I would rather wait for it to hit the proper newspapers first. There are many papers anti Blair in the UK, I wonder why it's not in the Mail or the Express?

Comment back from a contact at The Daily Mail - unsurprising - No Comment available

**Jer** · 03-14-2004, 04:02 PM

Poor innocent guys. Is Blunkett visiting Amsterdam weekly or what?

**Ironhorse** · 03-14-2004, 04:11 PM

God save the Queen! The fascist regime..

**foreverjason** · 03-14-2004, 04:27 PM

the logic behind this is extremely faulty.

How the fuck did this guy get voted in.

What a fool, I wonder what he was thinking.

FooL!

**pimplink** · 03-14-2004, 04:33 PM

Damn! Where's the justice in this world?

**raster** · 03-14-2004, 09:02 PM

That's brutal..put an innocent man in jail then give him a kick in the teeth

Originally posted by DarkJedi
We locked you up in jail for 25 years and you were innocent all along? That?ll be £80,000 please.

http://www.sundayherald.com/40592

**NoCarrier** · 03-14-2004, 09:13 PM

That story is so fucked up. Damn, I feel so sad for that guy.

**Mr. Marks** · 03-14-2004, 09:25 PM

Have you heard of justice? Well, I pity those people who get stuck in that kind of rut. They should have been smarter than that. I'm sure that he could have done something, or there is something seriously wrong with the sytem.

**detoxed** · 03-14-2004, 09:33 PM

i'd go crazy and kill some of the people who are trying to make me pay. no shit.