For­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith says he will ap­peal a court rul­ing that or­dered he pay re­tired Ap­peal Court judge Stan­ley John near­ly one mil­lion dol­lars, in­clu­sive of le­gal costs.

In a What­sApp re­sponse fol­low­ing an oral judg­ment in the mat­ter yes­ter­day, Grif­fith said if it needs to reach the Privy Coun­cil, he was will­ing to take it there.

“I was ac­cused of run­ning a well-oiled crim­i­nal en­ter­prise. I was ac­cused of this be­ing done un­der my nose, mean­ing that I al­lowed it to hap­pen. I was ac­cused of break­ing the law. I did not have the op­por­tu­ni­ty for nat­ur­al jus­tice to de­fend my name against what was said in the re­port,” Grif­fith said.