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Murderer's compo for hurt feelings
From correspondents in Auckland
August 23, 2004

A NEW Zealand man jailed for murdering a teenage girl had been awarded $NZ1200 ($1116) compensation for his hurt feelings over a letter written about him, a tribunal said today.

In a decision that prompted political anger here, the Human Rights Review Tribunal said inmate Andrew MacMillan had suffered "injury to his feelings, loss of dignity and humiliation" when he was denied access to the letter.

MacMillan was jailed in 1988 for raping and killing Jayne McLellan, 17. Her body, found in a stream, had facial and skull fractures from being struck by a concrete post.

In 2000 MacMillan had been out of jail on parole and started a relationship with another teenager.

The Tribunal heard that the unnamed father of the girl wrote to the prison claiming MacMillan had introduced her to perverted sex.










MacMillan heard about the letter and others in the prison knew of it, but he was not allowed to see it, the tribunal said.

It said it had awarded him a "modest" payment.

Jayne McLellan's mother Pam Wadsworth told the New Zealand Herald the decision was laughable. "It is us who have got the life sentence, not him," she said.

The Government has not commented but the Opposition said it was one of the most appalling cases of political correctness ever reported.

"The Human Rights Review Tribunal decision is completely barmy," National Party spokesman Tony Ryall said .