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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-15-08 06:10 PM
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Sri Lankan was remanded for 50 years without trial - now released
A man has been released from prison in Sri Lanka after being held on remand for 50 years without conviction.

DP James was 30 years old when he was arrested for stabbing and wounding his father and sent to jail. He is now 80.

He was moved to a psychiatric hospital shortly after entering prison in 1957, and returned to jail in the mid-1980s, where he seems to have been forgotten.
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Prison officers who went to collect him after his recovery checked his documents and realised the error.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7186063.stm


Now that's a failure of the system.
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