UK Supreme Court to hear compensation bid from wrongfully convicted Irishman
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The UK Supreme Court is hearing the case of an Irish man who was wrongly convicted of attempted rape and is seeking compensation.
Victor Nealon, from Dublin, was wrongly convicted in January 1997 and imprisoned until his release in December 2013, when new DNA evidence made his conviction unsafe.
He was eligible for parole after serving seven years of his sentence, but it was refused as he would not admit his guilt.
The UK’s Ministry of Justice (MoJ) refused his application for compensation, leading Mr Nealon and another man, Sam Hallam, who was wrongfully convicted of murder, to appeal to the High Court.
Their case was dismissed in 2015 and they are now appealing to the UK Supreme Court, which will hear their case over two days.
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