'Given what the state owes me, I should not be in this position'
A man who spent 17 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit says he is living on benefits and has been forced to use his local foodbank as he awaits compensation for his wrongful conviction.
In an opinion piece for The Guardian, he said: "In the days after my exoneration, news stories were followed by comments from the public suggesting that I must be due a major payout from the state. Millions, they reckoned. He says there is a statutory scheme to compensate victims of miscarriages of justice but that nine months after being cleared, he is still living on £363.74 a month in Universal Credit.
"Attention is rightly being paid to what led to me being wrongfully convicted – including a public inquiry," he added. "But attention should also be paid to what anyone who is wrongfully convicted faces upon release. "What I am seeking is an understanding of who is responsible for my conviction, and for perpetuating it for almost 20 years. I am also seeking funds to support me in living out the rest of my life as a person who is at the same time very angry and very vulnerable – and clueless about the modern world after 17 and a half years in a box."
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