By Prior Beharry
THE Attorney General has filed an appeal in the Brent Thomas case.
The appeal was filed electronically at 11.34 pm on Friday. Attorney General Reginald Armour, SC, confirmed this to AZP News on Saturday.
The appeal is against the April 25 order of Justice Devindra Rampersad who granted constitutional relief and damages to firearms dealer Thomas whom the judge said was abducted while in Barbados and handed over to Trinidad and Tobago police. He was then brought back to Trinidad on a Regional Security System plane and charged for the illegal possession of firearms.
The judge said, “Constitutional relief is granted including damages, for the breach of the claimants’ constitutional rights hereinbefore set out including but not limited to vindicatory and exemplary damages and damages for losses incurred as a result of: the lockdown of the second claimant’s premises from August 22 2022; the unlawful seizure of the claimants’ items which were taken from the home of the first claimant and the business premises of the second claimant pursuant to illegal search warrants; the damage to the personal and commercial reputation/goodwill of the first and second claimants respectively; the assaults and batteries and violent abduction and unlawful detention of the first claimant during the investigations of the police. Such constitutional relief including damages is reserved to be assessed and dealt with at a later date.”
The appeal was filed by Senior Counsel Gilbert Peterson with junior advocate Vanessa Gopaul and instructing attorneys from the Chief State Solicitor Department Svetlana Dass, Lianne Thomas and Adana Hosang.
It was filed by the Attorney General against Thomas as the first respondent and his company Specialist Shooters Training Centre Limited as the second respondent.
are to be returned to Thomas is wrong.
