Kriss's killer in human rights claim
THE killer of a schoolboy has launched a £6,000 compensation bid after claiming years in segregation in jail amounted to "inhuman and degrading treatment" and a breach of his human rights.
Imran "Baldy" Shahid has brought a judicial review to the Court of Session, in Edinburgh, arguing the treatment was unlawful under domestic law and contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights.
The 34-year-old was jailed for life after he was found guilty of the racially aggravated murder of Kriss Donald following a trial in 2006. The 15-year-old victim was abducted in Pollokshields, Glasgow, in March 2004, before being stabbed and set on fire.
Sahid's legal challenge is against the Scottish Government and prison governors over decisions to hold him in segregated conditions in the jail system for part of his time in prison. His counsel, Simon Collins, said he had spent a total of more than four and a half years in segregation.
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