Sascha Wil­son

A High Court judge has or­dered the State to re­turn a busi­ness­man’s li­cenced firearm and am­mu­ni­tion and pay com­pen­sa­tion, more than a decade af­ter they were ac­ci­den­tal­ly left at a restau­rant and tak­en in­to po­lice cus­tody with­out ex­pla­na­tion.

The rul­ing was de­liv­ered by Jus­tice Devin­dra Ram­per­sad in a claim brought by a Cen­tral con­trac­tor, who sued for det­inue and con­ver­sion af­ter po­lice failed to re­turn his firearm de­spite re­peat­ed re­quests and the dis­missal of crim­i­nal charges against him.