A MAN who spent more than seven years locked up for a murder he did not commit today told how he has yet to receive a penny in compensation.
Sam Hallam became one of the youngest victims of a miscarriage of justice when he was jailed aged 18.
He was freed when images on his mobile phone finally proved he was miles away from where a knife gang killed a 21-year-old trainee chef.
Now 36, Sam said: "For 20 years, the whole of my young adult life, I have been fighting a murder case of which I am entirely innocent.
"Still, today, I have not received a single penny for the seven-and-a-half years I spent in prison."
Sam is one of many victims of a law introduced two years after his release which says payouts only go to those who can prove innocence "beyond reasonable doubt".
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