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Sascha Wil­son

A High Court judge yes­ter­day slammed the state and po­lice as he award­ed near­ly $300,000 in dam­ages in a ma­li­cious pros­e­cu­tion case in which a man was charged with four break­ing and en­ter­ing charges, de­spite be­ing in po­lice and prison cus­tody at the time of the al­leged crimes.

De­scrib­ing this sit­u­a­tion as un­ac­cept­able, Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad crit­i­cised the po­lice for en­gag­ing in poor polic­ing and the state for de­fend­ing the “in­de­fen­si­ble,” as he award­ed gen­er­al dam­ages and ex­em­plary dam­ages, while re­new­ing his call for po­lice of­fi­cers who flout the law to pay dam­ages from their own pock­ets.