ROSEAU, Dominica, Aug 26 2015 – A Woodfordhill man, who was shot by a police officer in 2013, has been awarded damages and loss of earning capacity of EC$133,780.
Curvin Colaire, through his attorney David Bruney, filed a lawsuit against the Attorney General and sergeant Philsbert Bertrand after he was shot with an M16 assault rifle.
Master of the high court Agnes Actie, in her judgement, raised concern at the type of weapon used in the incident.
“From all accounts the rifle used was a high caliber weapon used mostly in warlike circumstances and riots,” she said.
“There is no evidence of provocation or aggression on the part of the claimant neither was there any evidence that the officers’ lives were endangered to justify the use of such force,” Actie wrote.
Actie also ordered interest on the global sum at the rate of five percent from the date of judgement to the date of payment in full and cost to Colaire’s attorney in the sum of $12,040.20. (Dominica Vibes)
