New Zealand's wrongful conviction compensation guidelines best practice - PMSIMON WATTS/GETTY IMAGES John Key says no amount of money will make up for the 21 years Teina Pora spent wrongfully imprisoned. Key told More FM the Cabinet compensation guidelines were "up there with best practice". Internationally, New Zealand's compensation guidelines - which set a base figure of $100,000 for every year of wrongful imprisonment - "sticks up pretty well", Adams said. His conviction was quashed in 2015 and on Wednesday the Government announced a compensation payout of $2.5 million for Pora's wrongful conviction. Pora spent 21 years behind bars for the 1992 rape and murder of Auckland woman Susan Burdett.

Source: Stuff June 15, 2016 20:21 UTC