A former prisoner will win a payout from the Scottish Government after he was subjected to a vicious murder bid by a violent racist in jail.

Daniel Kaizer claimed the prison system failed to protect him from his attacker after he was subjected to a threat in the gym at Craiginches Prison in Aberdeen a week earlier.

Mr Kaizer, who is originally from Poland, suffered a fractured skull after Keith Porter attacked him with a steel bar bell on December 4, 2009, while he was exercising at the gym.

Porter, who had tried to murder another Polish man in July that year, was later given a life sentence under an Order for Lifelong Restriction following the attack on Mr Kaizer.

Mr Kaizer, 35, of Aberdeenshire, sued Scottish ministers, who are responsible for the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), at the Court of Session in Edinburgh for damages following the racially motivated murder bid.

On Tuesday, a judge ruled in his favour and found they had failed in their duty of care to the former prisoner and were liable.

A further hearing will decided the level of damages to be awarded in the action, in which Mr Kaizer sued for £900,000.

Mr Kaizer, a former construction industry worker who was on remand at the time of the murder bid, was later given a ten-week jail sentence for assault.

Porter, 30, had a criminal record that a judge called "disturbing reading".

He had more than 30 previous convictions, many involving violence and four of which had a racial element.

Porter had admitted the attempted murder of another Polish national, Jaroslaw Janecek, in a horrific attack with a mop handle days before the gym assault of Mr Kaizer.

He received an extended sentence of 15 years for the previous murder bid.