A question of balance.

You can understand the indignation of the men who were wrongly convicted of the murder of Carl Bridgewater and spent over 10 years in prison as a result, at the decision to reduce their compensation to reflect the living expenses which they would have had to pay had they not been in prison. Whatever the legal rights and wrongs about this, what struck me most strongly was how miserly the amount they were awarded in the first place was, given what had happened to them. I couldn't help comparing it with the award to the man who underwent a personality change due to a head injury, which I posted about on 19/12/06.