There was a new twist in the London trial of the former Delta State Governor, James Onanefe Ibori, over the weekend, as a hefty sum of �20,000 was paid to Ibori's former Counsel, Mr. Bhadresh Gohil, by the British Police,in an out-of-court settlement.
The payment was made after Gohil was unlawfully deprived of his liberty, over the Ibori case.
The extraordinary payment is the latest turn in a legal case, as the Police investigators and British Crown prosecutors are now facing allegations of police corruption and a cover-up of key evidence.
The development was celebrated by the BBC over the weekend, with a dispatch titled: �Ibori's lawyer awarded 20,000 Pounds' ... as British prosecution admits manipulation charge.
The payment to Gohil may be a direct result of the pressure the mainstream British media- the BBC, The Guardian, London Times, The Mail, The Telegraph, among others- mounted on the London Metropolitan Police and the courts, to look into the allegations of injustice and court manipulations, in order to ensure a safeguarding of  the cherished British jurisprudence tradition.
Now, all the investigators and the prosecutors in the Ibori case as well as all of its associated cases, especially the lead prosecutor, Ms. Sasha Wass, Queen's Counsel,QC (the British equivalent of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN) have been dropped. The two central prosecutors in the case; Sasha Wass QC and Esther Schutzer-Weissmann were unceremoniously dismissed from the Ibori case in March 2016.
The case was removed from the Met Police and handed to the National Crime Agency. All the original investigating officers have all been removed from the case.
Gohil was paid for an infringement which was committed in November 2015, when he was detained by the Police.
Less than a week before his release date, prosecution barrister at the time, Sasha Wass, successfully applied for this to be revoked, and Gohil was detained for three more weeks.
Afterwards, Gohil proceeded to court, and accused the Prosecution of blatant lies to mislead the court.