Victims of historic sex abuse need better compensation scheme, say panel that oversees it

Victims of historic sex abuse need a better compensation scheme, according to the panel that oversees it.

The annual report of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme will be laid before Tynwald when it sits next week.

The panel - which last year awarded £224,000 to 36 victims - says it's seeing more and more historic sex abuse cases which have to be treated as special cases or face being thrown out because they happened so long ago.

The panel says with a growing number of such cases, a new scheme should be set up to make them easier to consider.