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A woman ar­rest­ed and de­tained dur­ing a bail fraud in­ves­ti­ga­tion has won $75,000 in com­pen­sa­tion.

High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad award­ed the dam­ages to Cheryl Ann Adams af­ter up­hold­ing her false im­pris­on­ment claim at the end of a brief tri­al at the Wa­ter­front Ju­di­cial Cen­tre in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

The ev­i­dence showed that po­lice ar­rest­ed Adams with a group of peo­ple at the Tu­na­puna Mag­is­trates’ Court on May 22, 2019.