An electrical engineer who was assaulted by police before they arrested his brother for questioning about an alleged plot to disrupt Carnival celebrations in 2018, has been awarded more than $80,000 in compensation by the High Court.

High Court judge Westmin James found that the police found that the police unlawfully entered and searched Wasim Mohammed’s apartment at Mohammedville, El Socorro, on February 8, 2018, assaulted him, and falsely imprisoned him during a raid targeting someone else.

James found that the police acted outside the bounds of the law when they broke down Mohammed’s door at 3 am, restrained him with tie straps in front of his wife and child, and punched him in the face—despite the fact that the warrant was for his brother, who lived in a separate upstairs apartment at the same address.