A security guard who in June last year sued the Government for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution was earlier this month awarded $3.5 million in general damages plus interest for false imprisonment after a Supreme Court judge found that while cops had reasonable and probable cause to arrest and detain him, “the lengthy period of detention” before his first court appearance for which “no explanation was given, was unreasonable”.

In filings before the court, the man, Raymond Campbell, had asserted that he was arrested wrongfully and without reasonable cause for the offences of illegal possession of firearm and ammunition on September 1, 2016. That claim was denied by the attorney general of Jamaica which represented the cops involved.

Campbell in a witness statement filed in June of 2025, said on the day in question he was employed to a particular security firm as the head guard and was assigned duties at a new residential development at Innswood Estate in St Catherine.