State to pay man wrongly arrested 3 times for child support
A Tobago man who was arrested on three occasions for non-payment of child maintenance has won his case against the State, which failed to defend his lawsuit for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and breach of his rights. At a virtual hearing on Friday, Justice Carol Gobin entered judgment in favour of Curtis Carrington, an operator at the Scarborough Hospital. She referred an assessment for damages to a High Court Master. Police arrested Carrington three times on alleged outstanding maintenance orders when there were none against him. Carrington is the father of one child, who turned 21 in March. The periods for which it...
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