Student Held for 7 Days After Buying Al-Qaeda Research on Amazon

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Terrorism Suspect Compensated for False Arrest [15th Sep 2011]

A student who downloaded a copy of the al-Qa'ida training Manual for his PHD course has been paid £20,000 in compensation after he was arrested on suspicion of being a terrorist. Rizwaan Sabir was researching counter terrorism and was held for seven days after he downloaded the manual. It is available from Amazon. Mr Sabir says he has been fighting for three years to clear his name and says he feels for all of the other innocent people who have suffered in a similar way at the hands of the police. His lawyers had argued that the Al-Qaeda manual was a well established text used during this type of study and the police agreed that there had been no evidence to justify a criminal charge.

A Freedom of Information request has revealed that there are currently 100 ongoing compensation cases involving schools in the Brighton and Sussex area. Nationally this could mean as many as £40 million worth of claims. Among the claims are a school which is being sued for £20,000 after someone slipped on a sweet wrapper in a carpeted corridor. Another is facing paying compensation after a parent hurt themselves while running at a schools sports day. Further cases are £75,000 for a pupil who fell from a climbing frame and £15,000 for a child who got a splinter from equipment at a school. The schools involved will have to be shown to be negligible in some way for the accidents for the claims to be paid out. A spokesperson from the West Sussex Council has commented that the council is covered by insurance for these types of claims and all are carefully considered before compensation is offered.

The Leicester Shire and Rutland branch of Age Concern is still waiting to find out if they are eligible for compensation after two of their purpose built ambulances were firebombed and destroyed during the riots in August. It is expected that each vehicle will cost £45,000 to replace, however the insurance company will only pay the market value which will be less than £5,000 as the ambulances are eight years old. The charity has been advised that riot compensation only applies to damage not covered by insurance. Local MP Jonathan Ashworth has commented on the situation in parliament and said that special compensation needs to be set up for charities in situations like this. A public appeal has had a good response, but the full amount has not been received.

A woman whose husband died of asbestos related cancer has started a battle to receive £250,000 in compensation from his former employees. Pamela Horseman is suing Innovia Films following the death of her husband Mark. He died last November after a one year battle with cancer at the age of 69. It has been claimed that he worked with asbestos during the lagging process of pipework and while replacing ducting. He also worked closely with men who mixed up dry asbestos with water. Masks were provided from the 1970's but these have since been considered inadequate. Lawyers have said that the company was negligent and should have provided proper ventilation and protective clothing. The dry asbestos was also allowed to float in the air and should have been dampened.

It has been revealed that a doctor tried to give a woman patient £20,000 in "compensation" after his wife found out about the affair he was having. Dr John Barrington Kenyon has been struck off due to his conduct as it was found that the woman was vulnerable due to depression. He was counselling her in her home and urged her to pursue the relationship as it might help her illness. The medical panel have told Kenyon that his conduct was inexcusable and he took advantage of a vulnerable patient. The relationship was sustained over a considerable period of time and it was found that he had attempted to hide it from his colleagues.

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