A Nigerian man who claims he was victim to racially-aggravated assaults while an inmate in Jurby jail has lost his appeal to sue for breaches of his human rights.

Judge of appeal Jeremy Storey QC and Deemster Andrew Corlett ruled that Anthony Adenaike’s appeal was ’totally without merit’.

Mr Adenaike 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 his testicles.

But in June last year High Bailiff John Needham struck out the human rights claims against the Department of Home Affairs on the grounds that they are time-barred. He also struck out the defamation claim.

However, Mr Adenaike was allowed to continue a claim he’d been assaulted by guards as well as a human rights claim against the police over their investigation. He was granted access to video footage of the incident.

But the appellant then sought to withdraw his claim on the basis he would not get a fair trial and the he intended to appeal to the Privy Council.

Lawyers for the DHA argued that proceedings should have been initiated by July 21, 2015, and so the claim should be struck out. But Mr Adenaike argued there had been systemic discrimination against him by the authorities since 2013 so his claim of racial discrimination was not time-barred.

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

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 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. He was guilty on four charges of assault and another of affray.

The appeal court concluded the High Bailiff was correct in deciding the human rights claims were time-barred.