Prison toilet case

A PRISON inmate yesterday won a landmark court case over the practice of slopping out, in a move which could cost the taxpayer millions of pounds in future compensation pay-outs.

A judge at the Court of Session in Edinburgh agreed with Robert Napier that the outdated toilet practice breached his human rights.

Lord Bonomy said it was a “degrading treatment” and awarded Napier, a former inmate of Glasgow’s Barlinnie jail, £2,450 in compensation.

Napier, 24, launched his legal bid in June last year in a bid to outlaw slopping out.

He claimed conditions in C Hall of the jail, where he was on remand on an abduction charge in May 2001, were unacceptable.