Ten years af­ter be­ing ar­rest­ed and charged with fail­ing to pro­vide a breath spec­i­men, a mo­torist has won a High Court law­suit against the State for ma­li­cious pros­e­cu­tion, wrong­ful ar­rest, and false im­pris­on­ment.

Jus­tice Robin Mo­hammed ruled in favour of Narace Dwarpaul and or­dered the State to pay more than $100,000 in dam­ages and in­ter­est aris­ing from his ar­rest and pros­e­cu­tion on June 11, 2016.

Ev­i­dence be­fore the court showed that Dwarpaul was head­ing home from work when po­lice stopped him dur­ing a rou­tine road ex­er­cise along the M2 Ring Road, La For­tune. Of­fi­cers claimed he failed a field so­bri­ety test and lat­er failed to pro­vide a valid breath spec­i­men af­ter three at­tempts, each re­turn­ing a “Void” read­ing be­fore the de­vice shut down.