Trinidad and Tobago’s law criminalising consensual sexual relations between male same-sex couples was overturned by a London court on Tuesday, after a legal challenge by a gay man who said the law breached his human rights.
Jason Jones challenged the Caribbean nation’s Sexual Offences Act – which made “buggery” and “gross indecency” illegal – as breaching his fundamental rights under the country’s constitution.
London’s Privy Council, the final court of appeal for Trinidad and Tobago, ruled in Jones’ favour, saying it was unconstitutional for the law to “criminalise private, consensual sexual relations between adults of the same sex”.