Man wins $242,000 after Carnival plot investigation

THE Office of the Attorney General has been ordered by the court to pay more than $200,000 in damages and interest to a man who was arrested during a police investigation into an alleged plot to disrupt Carnival 2018 and detained for seven days without being charged.

In a judgment delivered on Tuesday, Justice Robin Mohammed found that Tariq Mohammed was wrongfully arrested, falsely imprisoned and assaulted by police officers who raided his home in the early hours of February 8, 2018.

The judge awarded Mohammed $145,000 in general damages and $40,000 in exemplary damages. The State was also ordered to pay $18,194.52 in pre-judgment interest and $39,479.17 in prescribed costs.