Re: Barry George did not kill Jill Dando
 

Jesus, i wonder what type of payout he'll get?
+6 million?

Re: Not Guilty?
 

Another man who is absolutely convinced he is guilty is Nick Ross, her co-presenter on Crimewatch. I remember watching an reenactment after his last appeal failed and Ross was adamant they had convicted the right man.

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I imagine he will be lucky to get anywhere near a million, apart from his loss of liberty the compensation is totted up on his potential earnings whilst inside, being as he didn't have a well payed job they would, at a guess, be looking at six times 30,000 then add that to six years lost liberty. If I had to hazard a guess I'd say he'd get arround 250,000 to 500,000.

Re: Barry George did not kill Jill Dando
 

£250,000 according to the news this very second

Re: Barry George did not kill Jill Dando
 

Locking someone up wrongly for 8 years should be worth more than £250,000

Re: Barry George did not kill Jill Dando
 

Agreed, something even more outrageous I heard on BBC news 24 this morning was a solicitor saying that the government had recently passed a law capping compensation for "wrongful imprisonment" at £500,000. Apparently in the past it was set by an independent board with no ceiling, as obviously every case is different, imo there shouldn't be any cap, presumably these cases are rare so when the state makes a mistake they should have to make all amends possible, not try and save a few bob.

Re: Barry George did not kill Jill Dando
 

That law doesn't come into effect before October, apparently.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7538639.stm

Re: Barry George did not kill Jill Dando
 

If it's money he's after (and who could blame him? Think what he's been through over the last 8 years. Yes he's an attempted rapist and menace to women but he has been wrongfully imprisoned) then he won't go short. After his compensation he'll no doubt sell his story or get a ghostwriter to pen his lifestory.

Re: Barry George did not kill Jill Dando
 

Another cock up by the boys in blue, who answers to all these trials that get overturned?? Barry Georges compensation should be paid by the Police force who framed him, they might think twice the next time thy take a flawed case on.

Re: Barry George did not kill Jill Dando
 

So it's either a cock-up or a frame job. Do you want to make your mind up on that?

Besides in case people forget the evidence against him was strong enough to survive the initial appeal he had so it wasn't just the first nutter wheeled in off the streets to stand in front of the court.

And if anyone should be paying the compensation (even though it comes from everyones pockets at the end of the day) shouldn't it be the CPS? They make the decisions about who gets prosecuted and what evidence is used.

Re: Barry George did not kill Jill Dando
 

Derek, you really have to learn to stop bringing experience, facts and reasoning into a thread - only emotional and sweeping derogatory statements are required. ;)

Re: Barry George did not kill Jill Dando
 

Whatever, don't the Police send the evidence to the CPS?? If the evidence is flawed, like the very tiny flake of gun powder supposedly found in his jacket pocket, the Police said it came from a gun when it transpired the gun powder came from something else. The evidence was flawed right from the start.

Re: Barry George did not kill Jill Dando
 

That is why it goes to trial, the Police can only present the evidence they find, the CPS decide whether a trial is justified, the court then decides innocence/guilt, as appropriate.

Gunpowder coming from a gun is a very logical assumption & certainly could not be ignored, it is the job of the court to make the final judgement as to whether that constituted proof beyond reasonable doubt. As for 'flawed from the start', hindsight is always 20/20 - it wasn't thought to be flawed when the initial conviction was secured, nor when the initial appeal against that conviction failed.

Re: Barry George did not kill Jill Dando
 

At the end of the day we can talk all we want about this there are some things that are
Very clear the Lifes of two families have been totally destroyed by this.the Dando's will
Never get a much loved familie mamber back the George's won't get back the 8 years that
Barry spant away from tham.the only winner now can be Justice maybe it won't happen Overnight but someday for the sake of all the ruined Lifes that this tearable event has
Touched Justice must be done.

Re: Barry George did not kill Jill Dando
 

Well said:clap::clap::clap::clap::clap:

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I'm not in argument mode or anything but, I thought this DNA stuff they supposedly got Barry George on was bang to rights, didn't they say something about the chances of it not being Barry George were 200million to one. This opens a whole can of worms.

Re: Barry George did not kill Jill Dando
 

To be honest, I don't know enough about the specifics of this part of the evidence to comment.

In general DNA matching is, statistically, a sound technology, however corroboration should also place the suspect at the scene of the crime, as any forensic technique has a degree of uncertainty.