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The State has been or­dered to pay more than $600,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a moth­er and daugh­ter whose home was searched by po­lice us­ing a war­rant is­sued in the name of a man who no longer lived there.

De­liv­er­ing an oral judg­ment on Tues­day, High Court Judge Ava­son Quin­lan-Williams up­held the law­suit brought by the rel­a­tives, whose iden­ti­ties were with­held due to per­son­al safe­ty con­cerns raised by their at­tor­neys.

The law­suit stemmed from a search of the women’s home which be­gan around 4.30 am on Ju­ly 20, 2023.