Prisoner who took MoJ to court says he remains in isolation 20 months later

Kevan Thakrar has spent more than 1,300 consecutive days in conditions his lawyer said entailed confinement to his cell for more than 22 hours a day. Photograph: Hertfordshire police/PA

A prisoner who brought a legal challenge in April 2023 alleging he had been held in solitary confinement in England for more than two years has said he remains in isolation 20 months later because the judge has not given her decision in the case.

Kevan Thakrar, who is serving a life sentence for murder and attempted murder after being convicted on a joint enterprise basis in October 2008, brought a judicial review against the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) claiming unlawful solitary confinement.