Polish man set for payout after murder bid

A former Polish prisoner is set to win a payout from the Scottish Government after he was subjected to a vicious murder bid by a violent racist in jail.

Daniel Kaizer claimed the prison system failed to protect him from his attacker after he was subjected to a threat in the gym at Aberdeen’s Craiginches prison a week earlier.

Mr Kaizer suffered a fractured skull after Keith Porter attacked him with a steel bar bell on 4 December in 2009 while he was exercising at the gym.

Porter, who had tried to murder another Polish man in July that year, was later given a life sentence under an Order for Lifelong Restriction following the attack on Mr Kaizer.

Mr Kaizer, 35, of Aberdeenshire sued the Scottish ministers, who are responsible for the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), at the Court of Session in Edinburgh for damages following the racially motivated murder bid on him.

A judge yesterday ruled in his favour and found that they had failed in their duty of care to the former prisoner. A further hearing will decided the level of damages to be awarded in the action in which Mr Kaizer sued for £900,000.

Heclaimedthattheattackon him was the “carrying out” of the earlier threat made to him by Porter and reported to a prison officer, Gary Lumsden, at the time.