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A High Court judge has ruled that a widow’s constitutional rights were violated after a criminal case involving her husband’s death was dismissed due to repeated police failures.

He has awarded her $500,000 in damages with interest and costs. Justice Kevin Ramcharan’s ruling came in a lawsuit filed by Maureen Dilchan Maharajh, who was injured in a 2011 car crash that killed her husband.

The man charged with causing the accident walked free in 2017 after the police officer in charge, Cpl Dindial Joseph, failed to attend court multiple times.