Jahiem Peters, the seventeen-year-old who in July of last year, had accused police at the Vigilance Station of torturing him while in their custody, has filed a $150 million lawsuit against the State, for the “permanent partial disability” and other injuries he said he has suffered.
At the time, the fisherman of Annandale, East Coast Demerara, had been apprehended by police in relation to an armed-robbery probe and kept in custody beyond the 72 hours permitted by law.
The boy’s father, Esse Peters, had filed a court action to secure his release, which a Judge later granted, ruling that his detention beyond the constitutional period was unlawful.