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image captionDouble killer Newell suffered head and brain injuries in the attack
A twice-convicted murderer who lost an eye in a prison yard attack has been awarded £85,000 in damages.
Lee Newell, 52, also suffered a fractured skull and a severe brain injury in the assault by double killer Gary Vinter at HMP Woodhill, Milton Keynes in November 2014.
Newell had claimed the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) did not protect him.
High Court Judge Peter Marquand found the MoJ breached its obligation to keep the claimant reasonably safe .
At a hearing in February, the High Court had heard how Vinter had punched Newell to the ground before repeatedly punching and kicking him in the head, to engineer a move to another prison.