Magistrate Fabayo Azore on Friday passed a four-year jail sentence on Mark Fraser, an intoxicated driver involved in the fatal Mandela Avenue accident late last year which claimed the life of Bertram Cummings.
The security guard was last year slapped with the indictable offence, details of
which stated that on November 5, 2016 he drove motorcar PSS 8813 in a manner dangerous to the public, thereby causing the death of Cummings. The 59-year-old man of Annandale, East Coast Demerara was also charged for driving under the influence (DUI), measured at .161.
On Friday, Magistrate Azore found him guilty of the charges.
The unrepresented man was remanded to prison at first instance, but was later released on $275,000 bail for both charges, and his driver’s licence was suspended pending trial.
Prosecutor Stephen Telford on Friday reiterated that on the day of the incident, the deceased was walking west along Mandela Avenue in the company of a woman when the speeding vehicle crashed into him.
In addition, Fraser was found guilty of driving under the influence of alcohol, and was ordered to pay a fine of $7,500 or serve a default of seven days in prison.
