High Court awards man $300K in malicious prosecution case

The High Court has award­ed Dil­lon Pe­ters $300,000 in dam­ages af­ter rul­ing in his favour in a ma­li­cious pros­e­cu­tion law­suit against the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al over crim­i­nal charges that took 14 years to con­clude.

Madame Jus­tice Sher­lanne Pierre de­liv­ered the rul­ing on Wednes­day in claim CV2022-00005, award­ing Pe­ters $250,000 in dam­ages and a fur­ther $50,000 in ex­em­plary dam­ages, to­geth­er with in­ter­est and pre­scribed costs.

The case arose from crim­i­nal charges brought against Pe­ters in 2002, in­clud­ing se­ri­ous sex­u­al and firearm of­fences.