Rapist Killer Wins Cash For Hurt Feelings.
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August 23, 2004 - 3:49PM
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A man jailed for raping and murdering a teenager has been awarded $1117 compensation in New Zealand for his hurt feelings over a letter written about him.
In a decision that prompted political anger, the Human Rights Review Tribunal said inmate Andrew MacMillan had suffered "injury to his feelings, loss of dignity and humiliation" when he was denied access to the letter.
MacMillan was jailed in 1988 for raping and killing Jayne McLellan, 17. Her body, found in a stream, had facial and skull fractures from being struck by a concrete post.
In 2000 MacMillan had been out of jail on parole and started a relationship with another teenager.
The Tribunal heard that the unnamed father of the girl wrote to the prison claiming MacMillan had introduced her to perverted sex.
MacMillan heard about the letter and others in the prison knew of it, but he was not allowed to see it, the tribunal said.
It said it had awarded him a "modest" payment.
Jayne McLellan's mother Pam Wadsworth told the New Zealand Herald the decision was laughable. "It is us who have got the life sentence, not him," she said.
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The government has not commented but the opposition said it was one of the most appalling cases of political correctness ever reported.
"The Human Rights Review Tribunal decision is completely barmy," National Party spokesman Tony Ryall said in a statement.
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August 23, 2004 - 3:49PM
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A man jailed for raping and murdering a teenager has been awarded $1117 compensation in New Zealand for his hurt feelings over a letter written about him.
In a decision that prompted political anger, the Human Rights Review Tribunal said inmate Andrew MacMillan had suffered "injury to his feelings, loss of dignity and humiliation" when he was denied access to the letter.
MacMillan was jailed in 1988 for raping and killing Jayne McLellan, 17. Her body, found in a stream, had facial and skull fractures from being struck by a concrete post.
In 2000 MacMillan had been out of jail on parole and started a relationship with another teenager.
The Tribunal heard that the unnamed father of the girl wrote to the prison claiming MacMillan had introduced her to perverted sex.
MacMillan heard about the letter and others in the prison knew of it, but he was not allowed to see it, the tribunal said.
It said it had awarded him a "modest" payment.
Jayne McLellan's mother Pam Wadsworth told the New Zealand Herald the decision was laughable. "It is us who have got the life sentence, not him," she said.
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The government has not commented but the opposition said it was one of the most appalling cases of political correctness ever reported.
"The Human Rights Review Tribunal decision is completely barmy," National Party spokesman Tony Ryall said in a statement.
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but yah know what?
If this compensation is based on a law, then it is compleatly correct. If not, then it is silly.
But remember: Laws are there to be followed, if they are not then you just put your self on a slipery slope (aka, if we ignore this, then why can't we ignore that?)
there are just about zero facts in there, so I can't realy comment, I am just going to put out that untill there is a law that says we can remove some one's rights, we can't do it.
Note:
There are already laws that alow us to remove people's rights:
Prison
Capital Punishment
Fines
etc etc.
Yeah who cares, we might as well just kill ourselves since nothing is worth caring about to begain with.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> wrong froum (as this will quickly become a debate)
but yah know what?
If this compensation is based on a law, then it is compleatly correct. If not, then it is silly.
But remember: Laws are there to be followed, if they are not then you just put your self on a slipery slope (aka, if we ignore this, then why can't we ignore that?)
there are just about zero facts in there, so I can't realy comment, I am just going to put out that untill there is a law that says we can remove some one's rights, we can't do it.
Note:
There are already laws that alow us to remove people's rights:
Prison
Capital Punishment
Fines
etc etc.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Thansal, you are <b>dead</b> wrong, people lose some of their rights once they become a hardcore criminal, esp. one who is a proven murderer...
God I hate it when the criminal becomes the victim, crap like this should be outlawed everywhere
<b><i><u>IF</u></i></b> this was bassed off of a law, then it had to be done.
if not, then it is just wrong.
I agree with rights being taken away from criminals, I am simply saying that you can not take away their rights with out a law being passed. (remember, I already pointed out certain rights that are already removed from nearly all criminals, world wide).
I think that a system that would create something like this has serious issues and needs to be reworked, but until lthen must be folowed (b/c in ignoring the current system you set up a precedent for ignoring future better systems).
You even agree with me, that such things should be <b>outlawed</b>, aka: laws need to be passed to make sure stuff like this can't happen.
I was simply trying to step in with the idea reminder that if this was done under the law, then it is was the right thing to do. And the coontinuation of the right thing is to rectify that law.
Yeah who cares, we might as well just kill ourselves since nothing is worth caring about to begain with.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> wrong froum (as this will quickly become a debate)
but yah know what?
If this compensation is based on a law, then it is compleatly correct. If not, then it is silly.
But remember: Laws are there to be followed, if they are not then you just put your self on a slipery slope (aka, if we ignore this, then why can't we ignore that?)
there are just about zero facts in there, so I can't realy comment, I am just going to put out that untill there is a law that says we can remove some one's rights, we can't do it.
Note:
There are already laws that alow us to remove people's rights:
Prison
Capital Punishment
Fines
etc etc.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Thansal, you are <b>dead</b> wrong, people lose some of their rights once they become a hardcore criminal, esp. one who is a proven murderer...
God I hate it when the criminal becomes the victim, crap like this should be outlawed everywhere <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
b/c careful what we are blaming. This most likely isnt criminal law but civil law that allowed this to happen and what a mess that is.
P.S i know the incredible downsides to that but i choose to ignore them for the sake of my ego.