Fury at £240,000 Taxpayer Payout for Islamist Killer Under ECHR Rules
Labour is facing fury after an Islamist double-killer used European human rights laws to claim £240,000 of taxpayers’ money after he whined about being put in solitary confinement as punishment for taking a prison guard hostage. The Mail has more.
In what has been branded a “sick joke” Fuad Awale was given the cash in compensation and costs by the High Court after he complained that a decision to place him in solitary confinement as punishment for taking a prison guard hostage left him “severely depressed”.
Awale is serving a life sentence for the ‘execution’ style killing of two men in 2011. He was transferred to a special separation unit for dangerous convicts two years later after he and another convict ambushed a jail worker and threatened to kill him.
He later used Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) to claim his segregation – designed to prevent him harming officers and radicalising inmates – had breached his right to [private] life.
David Lammy, the Justice Secretary, has now agreed to pay £7,500 compensation and £234,000 legal costs after a High Court judge said there had been a “significant degree of interference with the claimant’s private life”.
Robert Jenrick, the Conservative Shadow Justice Secretary, who obtained details of the payout in a letter from Mr Lammy, branded the decision a “sick joke”.
He said: “Labour are cowing to terrorists and the human rights brigade. They must introduce emergency legislation to carve these monsters out of the ECHR immediately. If they don’t, we will as soon as Parliament returns.”
The court heard Awale previously asked to associate with one of the Islamic extremist killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby – but was denied the request due to “counter-terrorism concerns”.
He and an accomplice also demanded the release of Qatada, a hate preacher who had been facing deportation to Jordan to face terror charges, as well as Roshonara Choudhry, who stabbed Labour MP Stephen Timms in 2010.
The judge added: “The degree of interference with the claimant’s private life which has resulted from his removal from association has been of some significance and duration.”
Mr Lammy, who revealed the payout to Awale in a letter today, suggested Ministers were considering changes in the law to prevent extremist criminals from using the ECHR as a “barrier to us protecting national security”.
Awale was sentenced to a minimum of 38 years in prison in January 2013 aged 25 after shooting Mohammed Abdi Farah, 19, and Amin Ahmed Ismail, 18, in the head in a Milton Keynes alleyway over a drugs dispute.
He was handed a further six-year jail sentence after taking a prison officer hostage in 2013 and making threats to kill him.
The extremist had pointed a sharp implement at the throat of the officer, pinning him to a chair, and said: “Stop struggling, I’ve killed two people – I’ll kill you.”
Awale was subsequently assessed as having ‘extremist beliefs’ and held in ‘close supervision centres’ – where up to four officers with body-worn cameras ‘unlock’ inmates each time they leave their cells.
Awale was kept in HMP Woodhill, Milton Keynes, from 2021 onwards and did not associate with any other inmates since March 17th 2023, spending as little as one hour a day outside his cell.
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Notice how much his lawyers got. The Home Office will have spent a multiple of that plus the value (sic) of staff and Ministerial time.
Exactly. You can see why the Yooman Rights gravy train rolls on and why it’s going to difficult to stop.
Absolutely right. I would like to know the whereabouts of his Somali Muslim parents, and whether they have been investigated for enabling their Somali Muslim Terrorist son.
Probably living in a mansion in Minnesota by the sound of things.
Matrix Chambers founded by Cherie Blair.
Similar to political memoir payments. A way of rewarding friends legally.
Lucky for him that he’s not in the US. That kind of behaviour there would most likely get you in solitary for a very long time.
Perhaps he would like to join the Shoe Bomber and others at ADX Florence:
ADX Florence was commissioned when the Federal Bureau of Prisons needed a unit designed specifically for the secure housing of specific prisoners most capable of extreme violence toward staff or other inmates, as well as inmates deemed too high-profile or too great a security risk for even a maximum security prison. The inmates are confined for most of the day in single cells with facilities made of poured, reinforced concrete to deter self-harm, and are under 24-hour supervision, carried out intensively with high staff–inmate ratios.
Why has he not been given the short drop?
Interesting timing of Lammy’s announcement, since this decision was made by Mrs. Justice “Dame” Naomi Ellenbogen back in September 2024, but she took until now to decide on awarding this Somali Muslim Murderer nearly Half a Million Pounds, most of which will go to his lawyers, as Epping Blogger pointed out.
Double killer wins compensation for solitary confinement – BBC News
“In a judgment from the High Court, judge MRS. JUSTICE ELLENBOGEN concluded that Awale’s rights under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights had been breached.
“The degree of interference with the claimant’s private life which has resulted from his removal from association has been of some significance and duration,” she wrote. ”
See how the names of the judge and the lawyers are omitted from all of today’s media reports on this. So the British Taxpayers funded all of the “legal aid” for this Somali Muslim Murderer, and those lawyers have now won the jackpot…
£Half a Million Pounds awarded by a British Judge to a Somali Muslim Murderer for the “stress” of solitary confinement.
How much was awarded by a British Judge to British Patriot-Who-Never-Murdered-or-Raped-Anyone Tommy Robinson for the stress of solitary confinement?
My thoughts exactly.
Have a look at the picture of Injustice Ellenbogan below. Then, assume someone claimed the only reason why the dangerous white right-wing extremist Tommy Robinsoin didn’t rape and murder 60% of the black population of the UK singlehandedly was because he was prudently kept in solitary confinement. Would she agree with that?
You have one guess.
It beggars belief the extent to which the establishment is corrupted by these foreigners.
No other country in the world has such a deathwish.
Does this woman (Injustice Ellenbogan, born in Liverpool) look particular foreign to you? I bet most of her equally injust colleagues delivering similarly outrageous verdicts while perverting the course of justice with impunity are just as born-and-bred-British as she is.
This story has timed beautifully with the Egyptian POS arriving in this country, only having citizenship because another foreign murderer demanded UK citizenship despite his background and the ECHR said we were not allowed to assess suitability. We only found out about it yesterday because Lammy was forced to admit that his department were not going to appeal the ECHR decision. On the same day, the ISIS bride’s lawyers announced they are going to appeal to the ECHR as well, but all the Labour talking heads took to the news channels, saying that the Government would fight this appeal and Mahmood is going to change the law to stop appeals to the ECHR, apparently unaware of Lammy rolling over on this one. Hermer has already stated that the Labour Government would abide by all of their rulings and Lammy’s weakness in this case proves the point, so does anyone seriously believe that Mahmood will be able to overrule Starmer and Hermer in their feeble obeisance to foreign judges and courts? What connects the three, their Islamist extremist desire for the death of indigenous British people.
Talk is just so cheap. Unable to believe anything from officialdom these days.
The ECHR court isn’t a foreign court but a supranational one jointly set up by Great Britain and a bunch of other European states in 1949. It also wasn’t involved in this decision which was made by the British judge of a British court based on article 8 of the ECHR. The text of that is 1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence. 2. There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others. This obviously doesn’t lend itself to the judgement which was delivered at all because someone who is in prison for murder doesn’t have the kind of private life described in paragraph 1. Further, paragraph 2 makes it clear that this is a conditional prohibition of routine state surveillance of people in their homes and… Read more »
All lags take heart – “Is prison interfering with your private life? You could be due £Thousands in compensation. Call the PorridgeHotline…”
Because the British taxpayer is here to help!
Regretfully
If your ‘private life’ for the foreseeable future is in prison, how exactly was it affected?
Solitary confinement is fairly private.
Speaking of Somali Muslims like the Murderer Fuad Awale, there are now questions about Somalia’s UN Ambassador Abukar Osman, who is listed as the “healthcare administrator” for a daycare centre in Ohio.
“This comes as federal investigations into suspected Somali-linked welfare fraud, stretching from Minnesota to Washington, Ohio, and Maine, continue to intensify, with allegations that some entities (daycares, healthcare, or transportation service companies) were merely front operations to extract taxpayer funds.”
“As one commenter said, “2026 is off to a great start: Somalia (most corrupt nation on Earth) chairs UN Security Council, World Health Organization run by Ethiopia’s former Marxist Terrorist Tedros, World Trade Organization by Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala. Global governance brought to you by the bottom of the Corruption Index. Time to #DefundTheUN?”
Here she is, daughter of a Nigerian King “The Igbo Obi of Ogwashi-Ukwu”, now in charge of the World Trade Organization…
FFS!!!
Almost certainly descended from slave traders FWIW.
It’s a man Maury, it’s a man!
The Ooni of Ife, I’ll be bound! She stopped by when I was putting holes in toothbrushes and we exchanged a couple of words. Unfortunately I didn’t understand either of them…
Does she know any Nigerian princesses that need their dead husbands funds transferring to a Western Bank ?
It does make me wonder, with African fraud being exposed in the US, Canada, Australia and others, where it seems to be local Governments being fleeced as much as national, how much our local councils are pouring into organisations, while pleading poverty. All those women’s refuges aimed at minority religions and nationalities, rather than indigenous people’s needs.
It makes me wonder why when Africans in positions of authority in Africa are frequently incompetent and often corrupt why does anybody expect different results when they are placed in similar positions here, and why is nobody that bovvered except racists like me?
Death sentence for murders committed by migrants might put a stop to this? And expel Lammy to somewhere more appreciative of his abilities?
£234,000 in legal costs? WTAF!
Just when I thought things couldn’t get any crazier in the UK I read of this.
It is sheer and utter madness. We the taxpayers will be clobbered for this.
These filth do not have the right to any life, never mind private, and as for being allowed to sue, shouldn’t even happen, Kriss Donalds slaughterer did the same, fortunately got nothing, but the minute they commit these horrific crimes, is the minute they lose every right.
I wonder if the time has come to revisit human rights?
How can a prisoner have the right to a private life?
Not at all, obviously, because the government interfered with it for the prevention of crime,
see quoted text of article 8 ECHR above.
Why does he look so much like that other one ?
The real outrage should be directed at the people who sign off on paying a handyman £235 to put in a 7.50 lightbulb… the civil service are happy to spend other people’s
money haphazardly, however many noughts you add.