Terry Irving still has no apology and deserves ‘significant’ damages for wrongful jailing, Queensland court hears

Terry Irving outside the supreme court, which has heard submissions to determine how much compensation he is owed. Photograph: Darren England/AAP

The state of Queensland has still not apologised to Terry Irving – more than 30 years after he was maliciously prosecuted by police and wrongfully jailed for a bank robbery he did not commit.

Irving, an Aboriginal man from north Queensland, spent 1,671 days in prison from 1993 until his conviction was overturned by the high court in 1997.