A Nigerian man has lost his bid to sue the Department of Home Affairs and police for defamation and racial discrimination.

But Anthony Adenaike’s damages claim over his allegations that he was victim to racially-aggravated assaults by prison guards will still be heard.

He claimed he suffered serious injuries during the assaults in his prison cell in July 2014 as he was being moved to a segregation unit. He said he was humiliated by being stripped naked in the presence of a female prison officer.

Mr Adenaike said as a result of the assaults he has suffered continuing heart problems, chest and elbow pains and distress because the prison officer knelt on his chest, and also mental health problems.

He alleged his complaint was not properly investigated because of his colour, in breach of his human rights.

And he also claimed he had been defamed by prison officers who he said had falsely complained that he had bitten one of the guards and squeezed their testicles.

But High Bailiff John Needham struck out the claims on the grounds that they are time-barred.

However, Mr Adenaike was allowed to continue a claim he’d been assaulted by guards.

He was granted access to video footage of the incident - after signing an undertaking not to post it to social media or use it for any other purpose than as evidence in his case.

The High Bailiff noted: ’Despite his mental health disabilities, the claimant appears to me to be a man of significant intelligence.’

Lawyers for the DHA argued that proceedings should have been initiated by July 21, 2015 and there was no good reason for the delay so the claim should be struck out.

But the claimant argued there had been systemic discrimination against him by the Isle of Man public authorities, originating in 2013/14 and continuing since then so that his claim of racial discrimination was not time-barred.

Mr Adenaike had represented himself in the proceedings but failed to appear at a court hearing in May, claiming his notice of withdrawal that the High Bailiff, too, was biased and prejudiced against him.

He also maintained there was collusion between the Deemster, the prison, prosecution and the police to prevent him bringing an appeal against his ’unfair, unjust, biased and prejudicial’ trial in March 2014 when he was found guilty of assaulting a judge at Douglas Courthouse.

He had thrown a jug of water at appeal judge Geoffrey Tattersall and had to be wrestled to the courtroom floor by advocates Paul Rodgers and Chris Arrowsmith.

A jury took just under two hours to come to their verdict of guilty on four charges of assault and another of affray.