George loses compensation bid over murder conviction

Barry George, who spent eight years in prison after being wrongly convicted of the murder of British TV presenter Jill Dando, has lost his High Court bid for compensation because he was “not innocent enough to be compensated”.

Two judges rejected Mr George’s claim that Britain’s justice secretary unlawfully decided he was not entitled to financial compensation as a victim of a “miscarriage of justice”.

Lord Justice Beatson and Mr Justice Irwin ruled that the secretary of state was “entirely justified in the conclusion he reached”.