Let me see if I've got this straight, the police have suspected this chap for over 20 years while in the meantime he has lost a leg, his ability to earn a living, he's a solitary heavy smoker, he drools when he studies and now the police sceme to collect his dribbles to imprison him where his state pension will be traded for a hospital bed; sounds like a good use for law enforcement funds to me.
For rape and murder? Heck, yes!