George loses legal bid for damages

Barry George, who spent eight years in prison after being wrongly convicted of the murder of TV presenter Jill Dando, has lost his legal battle for compensation as a victim of a “miscarriage of justice”.

The legal move followed the dismissal of Mr George’s claim by two British high court judges in January.

Justice Beatson and Justice Irwin had rejected his claim that the UK justice secretary unfairly and unlawfully decided that he was “not innocent enough to be compensated”. They ruled that the secretary of state was “entirely justified in the conclusion he reached”.