Prisoners demand right to be fathers

Sunday 8 February 2009 at 10:32 am | In News | Post Comment
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Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights requires the state not to interfere in a private and family life.

Last year, Kirk Dickson, aged 35 a long-term prisoner wanted to have a child whilst in prison because he would be too old when released, so he took the government to court and in the European Court of Human Rights won the right to artificially inseminate his wife Lorraine. He met his wife through a pen pal scheme while she was in prison for benefits fraud; he is in prison for a minimum of 15 years for kicking a man to death.

This month, the Ministry of Justice confirmed that applications from six prisoners requesting access to artificial insemination services were pending a decision by the justice secretary, Jack Straw.

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