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29/01/2013
ECHR Rule Government To Pay Damages To Rapist
A convicted rapist has won damages in a case brought against the government over delays to a review on whether he should be released.
Samuel Betteridge, jailed in 2005 for raping a 14-year-old girl, won a ruling at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that found he should be compensated for waiting 13 months for a Parole Board hearing.
The court found that his right to have "lawfulness of detention decided speedily by a court" had been breached and awarded him 750 euros, plus 2,000 euros in costs.
In its ruling, the ECHR said: "The delay in reviewing Mr Betteridge's case was the direct result of the failure of the authorities to anticipate the demand which would be placed on the prison system following the introduction of IPP [imprisonment for public protection] sentencing and that it was for the state to organise its judicial system in such a way as to enable its courts to comply with the requirement under the convention of a speedy hearing to review the lawfulness of detention."
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Samuel Betteridge, jailed in 2005 for raping a 14-year-old girl, won a ruling at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that found he should be compensated for waiting 13 months for a Parole Board hearing.
The court found that his right to have "lawfulness of detention decided speedily by a court" had been breached and awarded him 750 euros, plus 2,000 euros in costs.
In its ruling, the ECHR said: "The delay in reviewing Mr Betteridge's case was the direct result of the failure of the authorities to anticipate the demand which would be placed on the prison system following the introduction of IPP [imprisonment for public protection] sentencing and that it was for the state to organise its judicial system in such a way as to enable its courts to comply with the requirement under the convention of a speedy hearing to review the lawfulness of detention."
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