So let me get this right - the judge accepts that the warrant was wrongly issued. It's pretty obvious that the press were tipped off, although obviously not officially. 'Arry gets awarded 1000 quid plus 25% of his costs. By my reckoning that leaves him around 6,500 quid out of pocket. I'm sure that's peanuts to him, but why should he be out of pocket at all?By Sky News SkyNews - 1 hour 56 minutes agoFootball manager Harry Redknapp and his wife have been awarded £1,000 damages after police illegally raided their home.
The raid was carried out last November as part of an ongoing inquiry into football corruption claims.
But the search warrant was invalid and the High Court said procedural failures by City of London Police in applying for it were "wholly unacceptable".
Lord Justice Latham said: "The obtaining of a search warrant is never to be treated as a formality. It authorises the invasion of a person's home."
The judge, sitting with Mr Justice Underhill, heard that the 6am search of the Portsmouth manager's house in Sandbanks, Poole, Dorset, was caught on camera by Sun photographers.
They also photographed his departure from Chichester police station after being bailed later the same day.
In a judicial review hearing, Redknapp and his wife Sandra challenged a decision by City of London Magistrates' Court to issue the warrant, and its execution.
The judges declared the warrant was issued unlawfully and quashed it.
The police were also ordered to pay 25% of the Redknapps' legal costs, estimated at around £10,000.
The couple's solicitor, Mark Spragg, said: "This was an outrageous abuse of power by the police who ignored the rule book and executed an unlawful search warrant at 6am in the full glare of media coverage which they no doubt organised or at least did not discourage."
Only Mrs Redknapp was at home at the time of the raid. Her husband was on his way back from Germany.
On his arrival, he voluntarily attended Chichester police station, where he was immediately arrested and detained for seven hours.
Redknapp held a press conference following his release on bail and spoke of his "bitter disappointment" at the way the raid and his arrest had been handled.
He said he believed he had only been arrested because he was a "high-profile" figure.
A total of nine people are on bail in connection with the continuing police inquiry, which has involved searches at a number of football club premises, including Portsmouth.
The police strongly denied tipping off the media in advance of the raid.
The likes of you and me (well, me, anyway!) couldn't afford that kind of money for a wee bit of justice.
And if anyone says 'there's no smoke without fire,' I might just spontaneously combust...
