Dominic Raab has pledged to stop dangerous offenders from “lining their pockets” with taxpayers’ funds after a gangland killer was handed £15,000 compensation for being locked up with terror offenders.

The Justice Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister said his human rights reforms would curb “abuses” of the system by dangerous offenders.

His intervention came after it emerged that Jemmikai Orlebar-Forbes, 28, won £15,000 from the Government following a claim for damages after he was segregated with terror offenders at HMP Frankland, a a high-security men’s prison in Brasside, County Durham.

Orlebar-Forbes is serving a 31-year minimum term for his part in the murder of a rival drug dealer in 2013.

Orlebar-Forbes’ claim against the Government sought, among other things, damages for a breach of Article Eight of the European Convention on Human Rights, which safeguards the right to private and family life.

‘Human Rights Act promoted a perverse culture’

Mr Raab said: “The Human Rights Act has promoted a perverse culture, where dangerous offenders can line their pockets by bringing claims against those charged with keeping the public safe.

“Our reforms will curb those abuses and inject a healthy dose of common sense into the system, by strengthening Parliament’s ability to protect our security through legislation, and requiring the courts to limit compensation paid out to those who threaten public safety.”

In Orlebar-Forbes’s case Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service accepted that it was wrong to segregate him in the prison’s separation centre.