Innocent man to pay for jail ‘B&B’

A FALSELY-imprisoned Irishman will have to pay for his “bed and board” while he was behind bars, the London Court of Appeal will rule later today.

Michael O’Brien spent 11 years in a British jail before having a murder conviction quashed in 1999.

But the Home Office, after appealing a High Court decision, will withhold the equivalent of €54,800 for his “living expenses” in prison in a final compensation settlement to Mr O’Brien.