Over a decade af­ter her hus­band was killed in a car crash, which left her and her two young sons in­jured, a wid­ow from south Trinidad has won a land­mark law­suit over the po­lice’s han­dling of the case against the truck dri­ver, who caused the ac­ci­dent.

High Court Judge Kevin Ram­cha­ran or­dered $500,000 com­pen­sa­tion for Mau­reen Dilchan-Ma­hara­jh as he up­held her con­sti­tu­tion­al mo­tion against the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al on Tues­day.

Dilchan-Ma­hara­jh’s hus­band, Ra­jku­mar, died on Au­gust 15, 2011, af­ter be­ing in­volved in a head-on col­li­sion with a truck in Man­zanil­la.