Three criminals, including a child sex offender, have won more than $200,000 in compensation and costs from the ACT Government over their wrongful imprisonment by the territory's parole board.
The men, originally sentenced to weekend detention by the courts, were ordered by the ACT Sentence Administration Board into full-time jail in the tough NSW penal system after committing breaches of their periodic detention orders.
In a scathing judgment delivered yesterday, ACT Supreme Court Justice Malcolm Gray made the compensation order in the cases of Paul Brian Morro, Toorage Andrew Ahadizad and another offender who, for legal reasons, can only be identified as N.
Justice Gray ruled that the men were entitled to the payouts because their human rights were breached by their being arbitrarily detained by the Sentence Administration Board which, in one instance, wrongly interpreted its own legislation.
Read more in today's Canberra Times.
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