Injustice continues
published: Sunday | November 24, 2002
THE EDITOR, Sir:
I FELT the need to get up out of my seat while watching the news and write a letter to The Gleaner about this matter. I saw the man who was put in jail for 29 years for allegedly breaking the window to a bank being carried home to his family.
He is now an old man who walks with a limp and he is very much reserved. The question comes to mind, why has this man not received any form of compensation from the Government for this? This man should spend the rest of his life not worrying about a thing.
He should have been given a house and given everything that he wants to make the remaining years he has, comfortable. I see Government-appointed consultants getting multimillion-dollar salaries, left, right and centre but this man cannot get what should have been given the day it was found out that he lost 29 years of his life for breaking a glass window. The injustice continues.
