Two killer paedophiles have failed to get judges to give them permission for the UK Supreme Court to consider whether their human rights were breached in jail.
Charles O’Neill and William Lauchlan previously were allowed to phone each other from separate jails.
However, jail chiefs put a stop to the calls in 2018.
The pair, who are serving life sentences, said the decision infringed on their human rights.
They launched a judicial review at the Court of Session in Edinburgh to have the move overturned.
But judge Lady Dorrian, who delivered the ruling, wrote that lawyers acting for the pair hadn’t passed the tests needed to send the cases to the London court.
The pair were convicted at the High Court in Glasgow in 2010 of murdering Alison McGarrigle, 39, of Rothesay, on the Isle of Bute.
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