Bizarre case smacks of victimisation
The warped obsession of civil servants with minutiae has dogged second generation Irishman, Michael O’Brien of Cardiff.
Freed following a miscarriage of justice ruling on a murder case after spending years in prison, he was awarded stg£647,000. But he also got a bill for stg£37,000, the estimated amount he would have spent on food, rent and general living expenses had he not been in prison.
