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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts) Tue Jan 29, 2013, 11:22 AM Jan 2013

Rapist wins damages from government

The government has been ordered to pay damages to a convicted rapist because of delays to a review about whether he should be released.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Samuel Betteridge should be compensated for waiting 13 months for a Parole Board hearing.

He was jailed in 2005 for raping a 14-year-old girl.

Betteridge was awarded 750 euros, plus 2,000 euros in costs after the court decided his rights had been breached.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21247242

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Rapist wins damages from government (Original Post) dipsydoodle Jan 2013 OP

He got a THREE year minimum sentence. SwissTony Feb 2013 #1

Wonder if the victim got any compensation. LeftishBrit Feb 2013 #2

SwissTony

(2,560 posts)

1. He got a THREE year minimum sentence.

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Fri Feb 1, 2013, 10:47 AM

Feb 2013

He's now 58 and was convicted of 2 rapes and 1 attempted rape. I suspect he parole board would have laughed in his face, but even the possibility of him coming free after 3 years is appalling.

LeftishBrit

(41,205 posts)

2. Wonder if the victim got any compensation.

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Fri Feb 1, 2013, 03:09 PM

Feb 2013

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