AFTER being detained for almost six weeks, on state of emergency (SoE) detention order, businessman Danny Guerra was released by the authorities on January 2.

He was released from the Eastern Correctional and Rehabilitation Centre in Santa Rosa, east Trinidad at about 6.30 pm. His wife was there to receive him. Newsday also understands the preventative detention order was also revoked.

His release came hours after his attorneys escalated their legal challenge to his preventive detention, issuing a pre-action protocol letter to Minister of Homeland Security Roger Alexander and threatening immediate High Court proceedings unless the detention order was revoked or extensive disclosure was provided by 4 pm on January 2.