Islamist Killer Wins Human Rights Case Because Prison Left Him ‘Depressed’
2nd January 2026
An Islamist double killer who took a prison officer hostage has won a court case on human rights grounds because he was depressed after being put in solitary confinement.
David Lammy, the Justice Secretary, has agreed to pay £7,500 in compensation and foot a £234,000 legal bill for Fuad Awale, a convicted double murderer, after a judge ruled that his treatment in jail breached his human rights.
Awale was transferred to a special separation unit for the country’s most dangerous prisoners after he and another inmate ambushed the prison officer and threatened to kill him unless Britain released the hate preacher Abu Qatada.