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TAMARA MERSON, centre, with her lawyers Fred Smith and Pleasant Bridgewater. Ms Merson was awarded $280,000 damages in 1987 for false imprisonment and the abuse she suffered at the hands of Bahamian police officers. Thirty years later the same issues continue to haunt the Bahamas police.

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