Posted AT 8:17 PM EDT on 15/05/08
Restrained by police, teen wins civil suit
VICTORIA — A weeping Willow Kinloch hugged her mother in the courtroom moments after a jury returned a verdict Thursday that found Victoria Police officers violated the teen's rights when they restrained her in a padded police cell.
The jury at a B.C. Supreme Court civil trial awarded Ms. Kinloch $60,000 for the incident in May, 2005 when Ms. Kinloch, then 15, spent four hours in handcuffs and leg restraints, leashed to the door of the cell.
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