A painter named Niger Milsom was awared the $150,000 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize for his work, Uncle Paddy. He is in prison right now for the hold-up of a convenience store.
He won the prize. He deserves the reward. He has already recieved his legal punishment. Adding anything onto that would not only be unfair, but illegal.
I don't see a reason why he shouldn't collect the prize money because the two incidents are virtually unrelated. However, it would be kind of him to donate to the store if he feels he wants to. He made the art which one the prize and should recieve it regardless of his other life circumstances.
I agree, the two events are unrelated. He's recieved his punishment for his crime and he deserves to keep the prize money. If he donates back to the store, more power to him, if he doesn't then (to quote my fav Mrs. Cav saying) he can just "go on with his bad self".
It's likely he deserved the prize but I think even though the two incidents are unrelated that Milsom should still give some of his prize to the convenience store for his crimes.
I think he deserves the prize money. Yeah it would be nice of him to pay for damages to the store, but he won the prize for his own work so he deserves it.
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