A High Court Judge has award­ed a man $35,000 in com­pen­sa­tion, af­ter he was de­nied a show­er for over a week while be­ing de­tained for firearm pos­ses­sion.

Jus­tice Devin­dra Ram­per­sad or­dered the com­pen­sa­tion last week as he par­tial­ly up­held a case brought by Patrick Trum­pet over his ar­rest and de­ten­tion in 2017.

While Jus­tice Ram­per­sad found that he had not been ma­li­cious­ly pros­e­cut­ed and false­ly im­pris­oned as po­lice of­fi­cers had rea­son­able and prob­a­ble cause to ar­rest him and jus­ti­fi­ca­tion to de­tain him for a pro­tract­ed pe­ri­od, he found that Trum­pet was still en­ti­tled to be com­pen­sat­ed for the con­di­tions of his de­ten­tion.