Up to ten former Guantánamo Bay detainees are set to receive a compensation package that could cost British taxpayers millions of pounds. The Government is ready to pay compensation to the former prisoners in settlement of a High Court action after two weeks of intensive negotiations, The Times has learnt. One former detainee is in line to receive more than £1 million after the Government agreed to settle the claim brought by former Guantánamo prisoners and others, according to a report by ITV’s News At Ten. With legal costs, the final bill for compensation could reach £10 million and one lawyer speculated that there would be “little change out of £20 million.”[1]
[1] F Gibb, S Coates, the Times ‘Taxpayers foot £10m bill for Guantanamo inmates’, 15 Nov 2010 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/
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