We locked you up in jail for 25 years and you were innocent all along? That’ll be £80,000 please (cited by Joshua Burton)
One might be reminded of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, in reverse: there, the man interrogated by mistake got a refund of the service charge.
Having got the initial howl of outrage off our chest, it may occur to us that the charge is against compensation received by some such victims; but wouldn’t it have been figured into the settlements?