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Original Post Date: 2008-10-31 Time: 01:00:07 Posted By: Jan
Jonathan Zealand was awarded R2,5-million in damages by the Port Elizabeth High Court on Wednesday for wrongful imprisonment, the SABC reported.
Judge Piet van der Byl ruled that Zealand be awarded R2-million for general damages and R500 000 in interest.
The 29-year-old Zealand was also awarded R8 000 for psychological rehabilitation and the State would bear all trial costs.
The matter stems from Zealand’s stint in St Alban’s prison, outside Port Elizabeth, between August 23 1999 and October 11 2001.
On August 23, 1999 the Grahamstown High Court overturned Zealand’s 18-year sentence for murder following his appeal.
The registrar of the court however “negligently failed” to issue a warrant for his release and Zealand stayed in the same prison as a convicted prisoner until his eventual release in December 2004.
Overlapping with this period was a 26-month-long stay in the same jail, during which his court appearance on a separate rape, murder and assault case was postponed 35 times.
No charges were ever put to him and he was remanded in St Alban’s maximum security section, instead of the awaiting-trial section.
The constitutional court in 2007 reserved judgment in the case.
Zealand was claiming R10,4-million in damages from the ministers of justice and correctional services at the time.
He alleged that he suffered “psychological damage”, had to join a prison gang and have himself tattooed to protect himself from sexual abuse.
He was allegedly forced to get tattoos on his neck, chest, shoulders, forearms and legs.