Great-grandmother, 81, strangled by rapist who murdered her daughter denied compensation as injuries 'weren't serious enough'
A great-grandmother who was strangled and left for dead by the man who had just raped and murdered her daughter has been denied compensation because her injuries were not severe enough, it has been reported.
Margaret Skidmore found Leroy Campbell hiding in the home of her daughter, Lisa, 37, in Bilston, West Midlands, after he had killed her, in November 2016.
A convicted rapist who was on probation, Campbell attacked Mrs Skidmore, strangling her with a vacuum cleaner cord and leaving her unconscious, while her daughter’s body lay in a room upstairs.
Campbell, who was later jailed for life, set fire to the house to cover his tracks. He believed Mrs Skidmore was dead, but neighbours rescued her from the house and she was treated in hospital, where doctors told her she had suffered a fractured jaw and cheekbone and extensive bruising.
However, The Telegraph has reported that Mrs Skidmore has been refused compensation by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority.
In a letter, the organisation reportedly questioned whether Mrs Skidmore’s jaw had been broken, adding that it didn’t consider a fractured cheekbone to be ‘a continuing significant disability’.
It wrote: ‘The widespread bruising to your head, black eyes, bloody nose, bloodshot left eye, swelling over your cheek, tenderness around your jaw and bruising and cuts to your neck are not listed in Annex E. [We are] therefore unable to make an award for these injuries as they are not qualifying injuries.’
Mrs Skidmore told the newspaper: ‘It’s not about the money, it’s the principle. It adds insult to injury because right from the very start my family has had no rights in this case.’
Previously, the National Probation Service (NPS) acknowledged serious failures in the way Campbell was handled.
Stop giving life sentences to all these killer animals; it cost 60 to 80 thousand dollars a year to keep them locked up? Millions of Americans are hurting and starving while these animals have free medical, room and board. Sure they don’t like prison, just don’t commit crimes and you will not be in prison? Time for the bullet or rope cure and keep some money out of the rich investors and lawyers pockers.
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DeleteRape and strangle the JUDGE
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ReplyDeleteThe banded remuneration of the highest paid executive in CICA during 2016-17 was
£105k-£110k
Carole Oatway Chief of CICA
Another good white person murdered by a worthless fucking pavement rape ape.
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