A dangerous jihadi who was placed in segregation for plotting to behead prison guards has won his claim that the move breached his human rights.

Nadir Syed, 26, was sentenced to life for planning to behead a poppy seller in a Lee Rigby-style attack in 2015. After his conviction, he was sent to the top-security Woodhill jail in Buckinghamshire.

But when he led other Muslim inmates in chanting 'Allahu Akbar' ('God is Great'), banging on cell doors and threatening to decapitate warders, he was placed in a segregation unit.

Syed launched legal proceedings, claiming that the harsh conditions of his imprisonment were a breach of his human rights. Now judges have upheld his claim, ruling that the level of segregation infringed his enjoyment of a private life and threatened his 'physical and psychological integrity'.

Syed's two year legal battle is estimated to have cost the taxpayer tens of thousands of pounds in legal aid.