Kriss Donald killer Imran Shahid wins human rights appeal please log in to view this image A man who led a gang in the racist murder of a Glasgow schoolboy had his human rights violated by being kept in solitary confinement, the UK's Supreme Court has ruled. Imran Shahid is serving a minimum of 25 years for murdering Kriss Donald in 2004. The court said that he had been unlawfully kept in solitary confinement for a total of 14 months. It ruled that this had violated the European Convention on Human Rights. But the judges also ruled that Shahid would not be eligible for damages. Kriss Donald was abducted in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow, stabbed several times, and then set on fire. Gang leader Shahid, his brother Zeeshan Shahid and Faisal Mushtaq were all sentenced to life in November 2006 after being found guilty of murdering the 15-year-old. He was said to have led the gang which snatched Kriss because he was white. During his time in the Scottish prison system, Shahid has spent four years and eight months in segregation, but the Supreme Court ruled that only 14 months of that time had been unlawful. please log in to view this image Image caption Kriss Donald was snatched off the street purely because he was white, before being stabbed and then set on fire His bid to win damages for the time he spent in solitary confinement had previously been rejected by the Court of Session, with judge Lord Malcolm ruling that segregation had been necessary for safety reasons. Shahid was attacked by another inmate at HMP Edinburgh in 2011 after being allowed to return to the mainstream population. Shahid then took his appeal to the Supreme Court, which has now unanimously allowed his appeal under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which deals with the the right to respect for private life. Prison governors are allowed to authorise segregation for up to 72 hours, with any extension to that period needing to be authorised by Scottish ministers before the 72 hour period expires. In their written ruling, the Supreme Court judges said that several orders made on behalf of the ministers authorising Shahid's continued segregation had been granted after the 72 hours had expired. They added: "Consequently, the appellant's segregation for periods totalling about 14 months lacked authorisation under the prison rules." 'Not inhuman' While Shahid was placed in solitary confinement for his own safety, the judges said that consideration should have been given to moving him to another prison elsewhere in the UK. They also said that no meaningful plan for his reintegration into the prison population was put in place until he had already been in segregation for more than four and a half years. And they said ministers had also failed to demonstrate that the period for which Shahid was kept in segregation was proportionate. Shahid and his co-accused had first been segregated for their own protection after being remanded in custody while awaiting trial in 2005. Apart from a period immediately before and during his trial, Shahid remained in segregation until August 2010, a period of 56 months. The Supreme court ruling said it was "exceptional" for a prisoner to be kept in segregation for such a long period in Scotland. However, the judge noted that: "The conditions in which he was kept were not inhuman or degrading. The purpose of his segregation was to protect his safety, and there were reasonable grounds for believing that he was at risk of attack. "He was not entirely isolated from contact with other prisoners and staff. He suffered some ill effects from his prolonged segregation, but his health does not appear to have been severely or permanently affected."
Human rights! There should be no such thing for inmates! Can you imagine if a gang of white people decided to kill someone because they were racially different and this hit the news? There would be absolute hell on from the minority groups (not talking about everyone who is black/indian etc. but the do-gooders who would say "why should this person have these rights"!
But he is correct. He should never have been kept in solitary. What a waste of money. He would have been far better of mixing with all the other inmates. Preferably a load of nazi axe murderers.
I remember this case vividly as I was up there at the time. Human rights? What about the human rights of the wee lad they tortured, stabbed & then burned to death? I'm pleased he's back in mainstream prison. I hope some big ****ing tough guy scoops his eyes out with a tea spoon & then ****s him up the arse. That said you'd think the prison authorities would know the rules.
Blokes clearly a first class **** who deserves to spend the rest of his days in misery... That said... Solitary for 14 months is disgusting. He's better off with the rest of the inmates regardless of what they do to him. Better the state let the inmates do inhumane **** to him rather than they do it.
Yeah, stick him in gen-pop with all the other ay-rabs, they'll have curry club up and running in no time. ****ing vermin, I'd leave the **** in a box that he has to stand up in, full of off sausages and bacon with a little hole for him to poke his nose out of, but the room is filled with Jewish farts, for 140 years.
let him have his human rights and be free in prison to mix with the other inmates, but just turn a blind eye to what will happen to him.
Or how about just letting him go. Drop him off in a remote spot just outside glasgow. And inform the lads family and friends. They want sharia law. Welcome to glasgow law.
Brilliant!! Its just bloody annoying though that people don't follow the rules, even if they're insane, when all it does is give animals like this one an excuse to make the Prison Service look stupid!
Human Pinata, the winner is announced when the Pinataman's brain slips out of their skull and on to the floor.
Time we published a brochure on prison life. Saying, if you, because of your chosen actions, end up in prison, you may be put into solitary. Or you may have to share a 2 man cell with three others. The food may not be to your preference. You may not have this that etc.. There will be restrictions, withdrawal of privileges etc etc. Your whinges will not be heard. There will be no appeal nor any human rights lawyers. You don't like our resort ? Then don't break laws. End of.
That's great but ultimately there will be human rights lawyers or we'll be invaded by some ****y self righteous country, much like what happened in Iraq/Syria.
Can't we just pile all the Human Rights lawyers into solitary confinement? That doesn't seem unreasonable to me!
If your sentence is 5 years you will serve 5 years. There is no time off for good behaviour, time will be added for bad behaviour.There will be no punishment by loss of privileges. You have none. You will be given food. Either eat it or don`t. You will work 8 hours a day, 6 days a week. You will be paid the minimum wage. Your board and lodging will be deducted, the remainder will be given to your victim. Sunday is your day off. You will be given a good kicking. It`s called rehab.
Still human unfortunately. That's the difference between us and barbaric countries. I wouldn't want to be from a country that treats people like they do in idiotic countries who forget human rights.
