A civil restraint order has been made against a man preventing him from making further claims against the police and prison service.

The appeal court said there was a real likelihood that Anthony Adenaike would make further claims and applications which are totally without merit.

And it ruled that a two-year restraint order was ’necessary, just and proportionate’ to protect the administration of justice from abuse.

Nigerian-born Mr Adenaike claimed he was victim to racially-aggravated assaults while an inmate in Jurby jail.

He was jailed in 2014 after being found guilty of assault and affray for throwing a jug of water over a judge at Douglas courthouse and having to be wrestled to the courtroom floor by advocates.

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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.

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

Mr Adenaike sued for breaches of his human rights, alleging his complaint was not properly investigated because of his colour.

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 and 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.

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

The police argued his applications had been ’unduly lengthy, repetitive, vexatious and scurrilous’, and he had issued at least 10 without paying the necessary court fees.

For its part, the DHA argued his conduct amounts to an abuse of process and it called for an extended civil restraint order to be made.

Now the appeal court has granted that order for a period of two years saying this was a ’proportionate response’ to the level of risk of future unmeritorious proceedings.

It also ordered Mr Adenaike to pay costs of £7,000 to the DHA and £9,000 to cover the police’s legal costs, saying the appeal had been pursued in an ’utterly unreasonable’ way and was doomed to fail.