{"id":271418,"date":"2025-11-19T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271418\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:00:09","slug":"will-peter-sullivan-receive-compensation-and-if-so-how-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271418\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Peter Sullivan receive compensation and if so how much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, has been campaigning to get the compensation scheme overhauled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He served 17 years in prison for a rape he always denied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has described the government&#8217;s cap on pay-outs for victims of miscarriages of justice as &#8220;insulting&#8221; &#8211; after facing a series of complications and delays in receiving any support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He vowed to &#8220;keep fighting to abolish this cruel and arbitrary cap, along with the brutal rules currently denying compensation to the vast majority of wrongfully convicted people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Malkinson received an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2p8npp174o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">initial payment from the government<\/a> in February. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The amount of compensation was not revealed, but The Guardian reported he was set to receive a &#8220;significant&#8221; six-figure sum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, has been campaigning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-271418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}