Tell me this is a bad dream...

[bazwillrun]

http://www.timesonlin...uk/article7097478.ece

Pinch me, wake me up, did i really read this !

How much worse is it going to get in this country, the lunatics really are running the asylum

[BBBE99]

Okay, this is a bad dream...
No one says I MEAN it, but hey.
I read that, I'm sure if WE (People who aren't convicts) where to do that, we would LOSE several thousand pounds. That is the country we live in, and I think it will get worse, until the election, hopefully...

[webbo3]

Perhaps cells should have shagpile carpets. !!


Dave.

[BBBE99]

Maybe he did it on purpose, those illegal people are very shifty and clevarr...

[Zeuhl]

The guy was sentenced to four months in prison not a lifetime of crippling injury and dependence on carers.

The evidence is that the injury was worsened by negligence and incompetence - hence the award.

///The ambulance was kept waiting at a time when speed was of the essence, by what the prison governer called the arrogant and unacceptable attitude of a particular prison officer who refused to accompany the ambulance,” Mr Justice Mackay said.

“The ambulance was not called for 39 minutes after the event, despite the common sense view being formed within a minute or so that he would have to go to hospital,” the judge said. ///

[Gladeian]

Injured service personnel from Afghanistan and Iraq get nothing like this level of compensation so why does a criminal scumbag get it ?

[Oneeyedvic]

Injured service personnel from Afghanistan and Iraq get nothing like this level of compensation so why does a criminal scumbag get it ?

And fish swim in water.

What the hell have the two got in common?

There is a massive difference between an injury sustained whilst doing your job and a person needing 24 hour care for the rest of his life due to negligence.

Is it really that tricky to understand?