Jun 9, 2026 · 30 min · 10 segments
I don't think a week goes by when someone doesn't mention to me the name Evaristo Salas Jnr. Evaristo's story has touched so many people, it's had us in tears of sadness and of joy and today is most…
Evaristo Salas Jr.GuestJack LaurenceHostSo, I mean, speaking of that, one of the biggest questions I obviously get asked when people listen to your story, it's still the amount of messages I get made on a daily basis of people saying, I've sat in my car this afternoon crying, listening to Evaristo's story and it's becoming free and the injustice, we know all about that.
And obviously we've spoken about this before and you've said to me that, you know, you spent so many years fighting the courts that you just were exhausted from it and you just didn't want to do it again for a while.
Have you thought about potentially what you could do in respect to getting some sort of financial, shall we say, benefit from what was a horrendous thing that happened to you?
Yeah, my lawyer's already kind of filed on it, so it's already in the process.
Like I said, I personally don't want anything to do with the courts, but I realize that unless something is done it's allowing individuals to kind of get away with it.
And the only thing they really respect is when it hits them in the pocketbook.
I mean, it's going to get them to think twice doing these knee jerk reactions, targeting certain communities or that kind of stuff.
And if that's the only change that I can make to that, at least to get them to think twice or, you know, to think back, well, maybe I should look into this a little more.
You know, And so thinking of in those kinds of terms, You know, I think it has to be done.
I mean, everyone I speak to says, you know, surely he is owed something for what happened to him.
And in a way, it's not even, you know, although the money will be great when it comes, I would say when it comes through because there's no way you can't.
But when it comes through, of course, that's going to be great and that's going to be helpful to you.
So, I mean, speaking of that, one of the biggest questions I obviously get asked when people listen to your story, it's still the amount of messages I get made on a daily basis of people saying, I've sat in my car this afternoon crying, listening to Evaristo's story and it's becoming free and the injustice, we know all about that.
And obviously we've spoken about this before and you've said to me that, you know, you spent so many years fighting the courts that you just were exhausted from it and you just didn't want to do it again for a while.
Have you thought about potentially what you could do in respect to getting some sort of financial, shall we say, benefit from what was a horrendous thing that happened to you?
Yeah, my lawyer's already kind of filed on it, so it's already in the process.
Like I said, I personally don't want anything to do with the courts, but I realize that unless something is done it's allowing individuals to kind of get away with it.
And the only thing they really respect is when it hits them in the pocketbook.
I mean, it's going to get them to think twice doing these knee jerk reactions, targeting certain communities or that kind of stuff.
And if that's the only change that I can make to that, at least to get them to think twice or, you know, to think back, well, maybe I should look into this a little more.
You know, And so thinking of in those kinds of terms, You know, I think it has to be done.
I mean, everyone I speak to says, you know, surely he is owed something for what happened to him.
And in a way, it's not even, you know, although the money will be great when it comes, I would say when it comes through because there's no way you can't.
But when it comes through, of course, that's going to be great and that's going to be helpful to you.
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