{"id":576,"date":"2008-08-26T07:58:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T06:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=576"},"modified":"2008-08-26T08:10:12","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T07:10:12","slug":"sion-jenkins-seeks-500000-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"Sion Jenkins seeks \u00a3500,000 compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_577\" style=\"width: 123px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><div class=\"img size-medium wp-image-577\" style=\"width:113px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/billy_jo_jenkins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-577\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/billy_jo_jenkins.jpg\" alt=\"Billy-Jo Jenkins\" width=\"113\" height=\"85\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>billy_jo_jenkins<\/div>\r\n<\/div><p id=\"caption-attachment-577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billy-Jo Jenkins<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Former teacher Sion Jenkins, who spent six years in prison for the murder of his 13 year-old foster daughter Billie-Jo Jenkins before being cleared has launched a compensation claim for up to \u00a3500,000 for his time in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Billie-Jo, 13, was found in a pool of blood with head injuries inflicted by a metal tent peg on the patio of the family&#8217;s large Victorian home in Lower Park Road, Hastings on February 15, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins was convicted at Lewes Crown Court of murdering her and jailed for life but was cleared at a retrial in 200t.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins is the second high profile claimant this month, following Colin Stagg who was awarded \u00a3706,000 after he was falsely accused of murdering Rachel Nickell.<\/p>\n<p>Compensation is capped at \u00a3500,000 for less than ten years and \u00a31 million for more than ten years.<\/p>\n<p>News report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/news\/3620324.Sion_Jenkins_in___500_000_jail_compensation_bid\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former teacher Sion Jenkins, who spent six years in prison for the murder of his 13 year-old foster daughter Billie-Jo Jenkins before being cleared has launched a compensation claim for up to \u00a3500,000 for his time in jail. Billie-Jo, 13, was found in a pool of blood with head injuries inflicted by a metal tent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}