Prisoners such as Peter Sutcliffe launching a legal bid?

We are all entitled to ask or appeal, that is the nature of our country. I'm entitled to write to Arsenal football team to to become a player. They will say no, possibly because I'm over 60, but more probably because I can't play football. To get benefits you have to prove you need them, which they can't, but they have nothing better to do with their miserable lives!!

As they are already being housed and fed by the tax payer any benefits they receive would go to the state,if someone is on benefits and is in hospital those benefits stop as they are in the care of the health service,so hopefully the E.C.H.R,although not the best people to deal with these appeals due to inexperience and lack of qualifications in such matters,will see this for the nonsense it is and will place a sanction on his lawyers for wasting the courts time which would better used studying law.

As a lot of these low lifers haven't paid into the system for the years they have been incarcerated I can't see how they think they are entitled to a penny. If by any chance they do manage to win their case then board and lodging should be immediately taken off of them as another user has stated.

It seems very funny that all of a sudden prisoners seem to think they have `rights' and are launching these fatuous legal bids. Is there something behind all this to undermine the Coalition or to detract it from the job in hand or even to stir up unrest?

Just the thought of it is enough to make me think they should all have proper jobs in prison again or be kitted out for 12 hour a day studying to keep their minds occupied.

What ever happened to sewing mail bags by hand by the way?

Could we have hand sewing their own uniforms, sheets etc do you think ?

Are people in other EEC countries not bothered by all this rot? Or is Britain the only country to tell its people what is going on?

It made my blood boil when I read about this this morning, I hope they do get state benefits, then have the cost of their incarceration taken out of it, £136 a week benefits minus £550+ A DAY it costs to house each prisoner!

No he isn't. Sutcliffe has no involvement in this. One lawyer, acting for 5 unnamed prisoners in a secure psychiatric unit has launched an application to the ECHR for his clients to receive the same benefits as those patients who have not been convicted of a crime. The application will fail.

They should receive the same pensions etc as if they were serving their sentences in prison - none.

Hi Catherine

... then I would charge them all costs involved in their imprisonment. The same as old people who have to go into residential care.

Now there's a thought, what a money spinner for our cash strapped economy.

Best wishes.

I blame the lawyers who put them up to it as they get maybe a year or so of ridiculous money from the taxpayer to fund the appeal.

They are no better than ambulance chasers.

We need to get out of the agreement with the European court of Human Rights ASAP, i can see the Herbert's there agreeing with Sutcliffe and Co... We don't have to subscribe to that court and its rulings, it isn't actually anything to do with the EU, although leaving that corrupt organisation would be great too. We need our Parliament to set up our own rules, then perhaps we can have some common sense, stop protecting criminals, and start protecting society and the victims of scum like Sutcliffe....

give me strength, can no one see that prisoners are doing this at huge expense because they are bored. If I wanted to bring a case like this, I'd need to spend my life savings.

Also pity help us if they actually win, which the words 'Euro Laws' make me fear that they might.