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Derek Achong

The State is set to pay com­pen­sa­tion to the moth­er of a mur­der vic­tim, who was ar­rest­ed and de­tained with­out be­ing charged over a two-week pe­ri­od in 2019, be­fore his even­tu­al death years lat­er.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that the wrong­ful ar­rest and false im­pris­on­ment case brought by Daniel Samuel Ri­ley was set­tled be­fore Jus­tice Christo­pher Sieuc­hand on Thurs­day, as the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al en­tered a con­sent or­der ac­cept­ing li­a­bil­i­ty.