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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Mabel Banfield-Nwachi

UK government will not repay ‘bed and board’ deductions to all wrongfully imprisoned

Paul Blackburn outside the Royal Courts of Justice
‘I had no employment record because you stole my life’: Paul Blackburn served 25 years before being freed in 2003. Photograph: Matthew Fearn/PA

A government minister has ruled out reimbursing some victims of miscarriages of justice after living expenses for the time they spent in prison were deducted from their compensation payments.

Last year, the then justice secretary, Alex Chalk, scrapped the policy of making deductions from all future payouts after the case of Andrew Malkinson, who was wrongfully imprisoned for 17 years.

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