KE­JAN HAYNES

Act­ing At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and Min­is­ter of Le­gal Af­fairs, Stu­art R. Young MP, has or­dered an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the State’s fail­ure to file a de­fense in a civ­il ac­tion of ma­li­cious pros­e­cu­tion case linked to the Vin­dra Naipaul-Cool­man mur­der tri­al.

Young con­firmed the de­ci­sion via press re­lease this morn­ing. 

The men who were ac­quit­ted of kid­nap­ping and mur­der­ing busi­ness­woman Vin­dra Naipaul-Cool­man are set to each re­ceive a lit­tle over $2 mil­lion for ma­li­cious pros­e­cu­tion.

The State did not chal­lenge their law­suit and they re­ceived a de­fault judge­ment.

Min­is­ter Young and the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and Min­istry of Le­gal Af­fairs are ex­pect­ed to ad­dress this mat­ter to­mor­row at a press con­fer­ence.