Monday, November 21, 2011

Man gets $100,000 after police mistake shampoo for drugs

In Canada there would almost certainly have been no compensation or, at most, a trivial sum. Going after the authorities for wrongful prosecution is very difficult here.  
      
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Associated Press     
 
DARWIN, AUSTRALIA—Authorities have compensated an Australian man $100,000 after he was wrongly accused of trying to smuggle drugs into the country in bottles of shampoo.

Neil Parry of Darwin spent three days in jail last year after he was arrested at Darwin Airport and accused of trafficking liquid ecstasy. His boat and two friends' houses were searched.

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