Ex-POW wins compo
TEN years after a prison beating that left Martin
Meehan hospitalised for a week, a Court has awarded him
£14,000 in damages.
Meehan lodged his case against the governor of Long
Kesh and the Secretary of State shortly after the
incident, but it was ``bounced around the courts as the
crown mounted appeal after appeal,'' Meehan said.
Meehan was offered £5,000 to settle out of court but
fought on ``to benefit the extradition fight of the
detainees in America, to aid those in Britain and to
end brutality against POWs,'' he said.
He asked: ``will those prison officers responsible now
be held accountable for their actions, after it was
proven in open Court that they were guilty of an
offence.''
Meehan stressed that the victory may have a bearing on
the extradition battle in America, setting an important
precedent for the US courts about deporting detainees
to a brutal regime.
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