The Privy Coun­cil has cleared the way for nine men for­mer­ly ac­cused of the kid­nap­ping and mur­der of busi­ness­woman Vin­dra Naipaul-Cool­man to re­ceive over $20 mil­lion for ma­li­cious pros­e­cu­tion.

Last Thurs­day, Lords David Lloyd-Jones and David Richards, and La­dy Vivien Rose re­fused the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al per­mis­sion to pur­sue a fi­nal ap­peal over a judge’s de­ci­sion to over­turn a de­fault judg­ment she grant­ed the men in 2021.

A no­tice con­firm­ing the de­ci­sion was post­ed on the Unit­ed King­dom-based ap­pel­late court’s web­site yes­ter­day.