Double killer lost eye in prison yard attack as thug shouted this is what you get
Lee Newell was targeted in the grounds of HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes, and also suffered a fractured skull and a severe brain injury. He was eventually awarded £85,000 in damages
07:49, 1 APR 2021
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Lee Newell was punched to the floor before being kicked in the head multiple times (Image: PA)
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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.
The crime is all the more shocking because the suspect now in custody is a policeman.
Her killing has rightly inspired both an outpouring of grief and a bout of national soul-searching on the endemic violence that the female population still has to endure.
We are meant to live in an age of progress, yet vile, brutish misogyny continues to flourish.
There can be no true equality while women do not feel safe.
It was the demand for greater protection, allied to the determination to honour Miss Everard’s memory, that led to the volatile scenes at Clapham Common on Saturday which have left the police under severe pressure.
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