Crime Watch host Ian Al­leyne has been or­dered to pay busi­ness­man Shaun Sam­my over $600,000 in com­pen­sa­tion for defama­tion.

Sam­my re­ceived the award from High Court Mas­ter Maris­sa Robert­son yes­ter­day months af­ter the High Court en­tered judg­ment in de­fault be­cause Al­leyne failed to en­ter a de­fence in court.

Speak­ing with re­porters out­side the Hall of Jus­tice yes­ter­day, Sam­my said he was hap­py with the le­gal vic­to­ry.

"I have to look at the fig­ures but I def­i­nite­ly want to give a por­tion to char­i­ty," Sam­my said.

Sam­my, his fa­ther, busi­ness mag­nate Ju­nior Sam­my, and the fam­i­ly's com­pa­ny Ju­nior Sam­my Group of Com­pa­nies sued Al­leyne last year, af­ter Al­leyne spoke about Sam­my's then pend­ing case for drunk dri­ving on his Crime Watch pro­gramme.

The pro­gramme is aired on tele­vi­sion sta­tion CNC3, which is part of Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed, which al­so pub­lish­es this news­pa­per. As with pre­vi­ous hear­ings of the case Al­leyne was not in court yes­ter­day. Al­leyne was al­so or­dered to pay Sam­my's le­gal costs for bring­ing the law­suit.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, Sam­my was dri­ving his ve­hi­cle along French Street, Wood­brook, around 5 pm on Au­gust 23, last year, when he was stopped by po­lice.

A breathal­yser test was done which showed he had a blood al­co­hol lev­el of 86 mi­cro­grammes (mcg) of al­co­hol in every 100 mil­li­l­itres of breath, 51 mcg above the le­gal lim­it.

Sam­my even­tu­al­ly plead­ed guilty to the of­fence in Oc­to­ber and was placed on a bond to keep the peace for three years.

Sam­my was rep­re­sent­ed by Se­nior Coun­sel Ramesh Lawrence Ma­haraj, Om Lal­la and Der­rick Bal­li­ram.