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Murderer who killed two men over Milton Keynes drugs dispute in 2011 awarded £240k for having his human rights breached at Woodhill Prison
A convicted double murderer who killed two men in a drugs dispute in Milton Keynes in 2011 has been awarded £240,000 after a judge found his human rights were breached by his treatment in jail.
Fuad Awale, then aged 25, was sentenced in 2013 for shooting Mohammed Abdi Farah, aged 19, and Amin Ahmed Ismail, aged 18, in an alleyway in the Fishermead estate in the city in 2011.
Awale, who was told he must serve a minimum of 38 years at the time of the sentencing, has now been awarded £7,500 in compensation, while Justice Secretary David Lammy agreed to foot a £234,000 legal bill for him after a judge ruled his treatment in Milton Keynes’ Woodhill jail breached Human Rights codes.
The pay-out to Awale came after a judge ruled his treatment including at HMP Woodhill, a category B men’s high-security prison based on Tattenhoe Street, breached his right to a private life under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Woodhill Prison. Photo: MK Citizen archive.
The court heard how Awale had been held in HMP Woodhill since 2021 and had not associated with any other prisoners since March 2023, spending as little as one hour a day outside his cell.
Awale was transferred to a ‘close supervision centre’, an area within high-security jails for the most dangerous prisoners, following an incident in which he and two other inmates took a prison officer hostage and threatened to kill him.
He claimed the segregation had breached his right to a private life, and said he had suffered ‘severe depression’ as a result of being denied contact with other inmates.
Awale’s lawyers claimed the decisions to deny association were ‘opaque’, that he had been denied the chance to put his case forward and that prison managers had failed to regularly review his segregation conditions, a legal requirement.
Ruling in Awale’s favour, a judge at the High Court said: “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 MP said that Ministers were reviewing whether changes were needed in the law to prevent criminals using the European Court of Human Rights as a “barrier to us protecting national security”.
Meanwhile shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick said: “It’s a sick joke that taxpayers are handing this man £7,500 in compensation and footing a legal bill of over £230,000.
“This is a double murderer and extremist who took a prison officer hostage.” But why did he took officer hostage? …. If you put on his shoes, what are you going to do?
