Spar manager wins damages claim after unlawful arrest

Zelda Venter

Following the Covid-19 restrictions imposed five years ago, the ministry of police will have to dig into its pocket to pay damages to the operational manager at Whitfield Spar in Boksburg, who was arrested for selling hot food to the public during the government’s restrictions at that time. The manager, George Lambrakis, had to spend two and a half hours in a crowded police cell before he was granted R1 500 bail. He maintained throughout that the store sold prepackaged items of pap and chicken to the public and that they had thus not contravened the regulations at the time. The police, on the other hand, were adamant that a worker dished out pap and chicken by hand to customers from a dish. Following his harrowing ordeal when he was…

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