Busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve have lost their bid to se­cure their free­dom while they pur­sue a case chal­leng­ing their de­ten­tion un­der the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) over an al­leged plot to as­sas­si­nate key gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.

De­liv­er­ing a de­ci­sion, a short while ago, Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad re­ject­ed the cou­ple’s ap­pli­ca­tion to be re­leased pend­ing the de­ter­mi­na­tion of a ju­di­cial re­view law­suit over Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) is­sued against them days af­ter their ar­rest, last week.

Jus­tice Seep­er­sad found that the cou­ple’s lawyers led by Se­nior Coun­sel Dou­glas Mendes failed to prove ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties in the PDOs is­sued by Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der.