Fuad Abu Bakr, son of Muslim leader Yasin Abu Bakr, says he plans to take legal action against the Trinidad and Tobago and Police Service after being wrongfully detained for seven hours on Wednesday.
Bakr, who is political leader of the New National Vision (NNV) party, was taken into custody on suspicion of being in possession of a stolen vehicle. He was released without charge, when it was discovered that he was in fact driving his own vehicle.
But he does not intend to let the matter end there, noting that it’s the first time that he has ever been arrested and calling it a very embarrassing situation.
Bakr told the media that he and his wife were travelling in the car on the way home around 5:30 p.m. when police pulled over the Nissan Navara pickup he was driving. He said he was asked to step out of the vehicle and both he and his wife were taken to the police station.
