A busi­ness­man from cen­tral Trinidad, sus­pect­ed of op­er­at­ing a broth­el and en­gag­ing in hu­man traf­fick­ing, has been grant­ed per­mis­sion to pur­sue a law­suit over be­ing de­tained un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) for the past three months.

Last week, High Court Judge Christo­pher Sieuc­hand grant­ed Lloyd Sealey leave to pur­sue a ju­di­cial re­view case over re­main­ing on the PDO even af­ter a re­view tri­bunal rec­om­mend­ed his re­lease.

Sealy’s chal­lenge of the PDO was one of five last week, with the high-pro­file case in­volv­ing Do­minic and Genevieve Hadeed al­so fea­tur­ing in the High Court.