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Commissioner of Police Allister Guevarro has welcomed a midnight ruling by a High Court judge on July 18, which dismissed a lawsuit from one of the prisoners who challenged his removal from the Maximum Security Prison (MSP) in Arouca.

The prisoner, Rajaee Ali, who is awaiting trial for the May 2014 murder of special prosecutor Dana Seetahal, was one of ten high-profile prisoners who were relocated from MSP prison to facilities manned by the Defence Force at Coast Guard headquarters at Staubles Bay and the army base at Teteron, in Chaguaramas.

Ali filed an emergency lawsuit seeking to get authorities to return him to the Maximum Security Prison. He and the other prisoners were removed from their cells in an operation supervised by Guevarro shortly before 6 am on July 18, even before the country was alerted that a state of emergency had been declared. They were transported in a heavily guarded convoy to Chaguaramas.