A jailed war criminal known as the 'Butcher of Bosnia' is suing the UK government for inhumane treatment as he is not allowed a laptop in his cell.

Radovan Karadzic, 79, who is in Albany prison on the Isle of Wight, is after £50,000 for human rights breaches, and is also claiming that he has been banned from communicating in his native Serbian, Daily Mail reports.

He appeared in court via video link last week to sue Secretary of State for Justice Shabana Mahmood.

If he wins, taxpayers would have to pay his bill, as well as other legal costs.

This comes after his daughter Sonja Karadzic-Jovicevic claimed in 2021 that he was being held in ‘unhealthy’ and ‘uncivilised’ conditions after he was moved to the Isle of Wight.

She had told Bosnian news agency SRNA: ‘As for the physical condition in which he is accommodated, it is unacceptable.

‘If we add to that the fact that he is in a building full of carcinogenic asbestos that is banned around the world, it is clear in what condition he will be in.’

She also claimed that moving the ‘Butcher of Bosnia’ to Britain was done deliberately to spite her family.

She said: ‘My father is in a very uncivilised situation, and as far as his family is concerned, his relocation to the south of England was deliberately made to keep him far away, outside the rules of the United Nations Resolution adopted by the Security Council.

‘It will be very difficult for us physically, financially and procedurally, because of visas, and immunisation during the pandemic, and even after that, to ever go there and visit him.’

She also claimed he had his books and computer taken off him and was no longer able to speak his language and live his culture.

The former Bosnian Serb leader was convicted in 2019 of genocide against Croats and Muslims during the Balkans War.