TORIES MOVE TO BAN INMATES FROM USING ECHR  – Dangerous criminals use ECHR to sue the prison service over their segregation in jail

The Tories are to put forward a legal block to prevent terrorists and dangerous criminals using human rights laws to sue the prison service over their segregation in jail.

Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, will present a bill in Parliament to make human rights claims over their confinement in separation centres “inadmissible.”

It follows successful claims by prisoners that their segregation – designed to prevent them harming officers and radicalising other inmates – had breached their rights to a private life under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

Among them was double murderer Fuad Awale who took a prison officer hostage who won £7,500 in compensation and £234,000 legal costs after a judge ruled that his treatment in jail breached his human rights.

Murderer Denny De Silva, a convert to Islam who is said to be an “extremist enforcer”, won thousands of pounds in legal aid after arguing that separating him from other prisoners was a breach of his Article 8 rights.

Mr Jenrick’s bill would create a carve out in law for the Human Rights Act and ECHR so that terrorists and violent offenders could not make human rights or procedural claims to challenge their detention