However, due to his severe injuries, this institution refused to admit him.

In his questioning by the investigating judge he denied the allegations against him.

When lodging his application he was assisted by his former defence counsel Mr H., a lawyer practising in Oslo.   On ..

Notably, according to his statement, he was arrested by several men when he was trying to get into a car of his friend Z.S. outside the airport. The latter came to pick him up.

The public prosecutor committed him for trial and ordered his release, but the applicant was rearrested by the police.

offered to him over the course of a seventeen-year period prior to his imprisonment.

On 5 February the hearing was adjourned at his request to allow him to undergo a brain scan.

The applicant claims that no special arrangements were made for him in the light of his disability. 3.

In particular, he argues that he was convicted on the basis of planted evidence and that he had no access to a lawyer of his own choosing.

The applicant's removal from the Bahamas inevitably made it more difficult for his family to visit him but this was a natural and inevitable consequence of his removal to a place of security.

The applicant remained in contact with his son and visited him often. In June 2002 the applicant’s former wife died in a car accident.

A doctor who saw him prescribed medication for his condition.

    The circumstances of the case At about 7 p.m. on 20 February 2002 three police officers arrested the applicant in the street near his home and brought him to the Lviv sobering-up centre,

However, at no point during his detention had the doctors attending him suggested that he was unfit to serve his sentence.

He points out that it was never suggested to him during his interviews with the police that they had information from any source implicating him in this way or regarding the nature of his alleged involvement

  This also prevented him from having adequate time and facilities to prepare his defence.

He then revived the young man by pouring water on his head before chasing him away and uttering curses at him. Later on he summoned him together with two other conscripts.

  He further complains that the only evidence against him was a probation officer's report which was not made available to him until eight months after he was sentenced, after his Member of Parliament

The applicant appealed submitting that K.W. was the only person close to him ( osoba bliska ), given that his parents were dead.