The High Court has granted an interim injunction in favour of surgeon Dr Sahle Griffith which prevents the authorities from charging him criminally in the death of Warren Mottley, brother of Prime Minister Mia Mottley.This latest move follows Coroner Graveney Bannister’s ruling in late December 2022 that Dr Griffith and anesthesiologist Dr Nigel Farnum were negligent in Mottley’s death.After two days of legal arguments by the parties involved, Justice Barry Carrington on Tuesdayhanded down his verdict in the preliminary matter which is in place pending the outcome of a judicial review of Coroner Bannister’s ruling.Just days before Christmas, the coroner found the doctors, who were in charge of Mottley’s care leading up to his passing, criminally negligent in his death. In fact, Magistrate Bannister said the conduct of both doctors was “so bad in all the circumstances” that it would amount to a criminal act and that they were “negligent and concerned in the cause of his death”.
