Putting Criminals in prison breaches their human rights, a Strasbourg High Court has ruled.
The judgement by the European Court of Human Rights looks likely to force a change in the British law punishing wrongdoers.
The ruling came after a case brought by inmate Tommy Steele, who was given a life sentence in 1990 after pleading guilty to murder.
Speaking to DSS, Mr Steele said: "There are about 75,000 convicted prisoners in the UK, and all of them are there against their will. Are we such a fascist state that we deny law-abiding rapists and murderers their freedom?"
A spokesman for the Government said it would now give "urgent consideration" to reviewing current legislation.
Mr Steele initially took his claim to the High Court, which rejected his claim, pointing out that the man he had chopped up and left in buckets had had the human right not to be murdered horribly taken away from him by being murdered horribly.
However, today the European Court of Human Rights backed his claim, freeing him immediately, awarding him £8 million and letting him have anything he wanted from the local sweet shop in compensation.
