The judge in the case acknowledged there would be “public revulsion” at a criminal who was carrying a “football-sized block of cannabis” winning the right to sue the Government.
And last night, taxpayers’ groups reacted with anger that Britain was being dictated to by “obscure European rules” giving our cash to drug dealers.
But Mr Justice Jay explained at the High Court in London that Sean Delaney was entitled to “substantial” damages because the Government was in “serious breach” of European Community law concerning motor insurance.
Giving the Transport Minister permission to appeal, the judge said: “Many readers may be wondering how it comes about that a drug dealer is entitled to compensation against Her Majesty’s Government in circumstances where he was injured during the course of a criminal joint enterprise.
“The understandable reaction might be, there must be some rule of public policy, reflecting public revulsion, which bars such a claim. The short answer is that there is not.”
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