Christo­pher Sama­roo, the fa­ther of po­lice shoot­ing vic­tim Joshua Sama­roo, was de­tained by po­lice of­fi­cers at the St Clair Po­lice Sta­tion last evening.

Guardian Me­dia was in­formed that af­ter go­ing to find out why his home was raid­ed by of­fi­cers from the St Clair sta­tion ear­li­er, Sama­roo was cau­tioned by se­nior of­fi­cers and de­tained in re­la­tion to al­leged state­ments on the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice at­trib­uted to him in the me­dia, which were al­so broad­cast on­line on Sun­day.

At­tor­ney Aaron Lewis last night con­firmed Sama­roo was held un­der Reg­u­la­tion 11 of the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions. He said Sama­roo is ex­pect­ed to re­main in cus­tody for at least the next 48 hours.