A Rose Hall, Corentyne, Berbice resident was granted bail in the sum of $1 million on a causing death charge after he allegedly struck and killed a pedestrian on the Broomfield Public Road on Wednesday evening.
Patrick King, 33, of Lot 96 Rose Hall, was slapped with four charges – causing death by dangerous driving; driving under the influence of alcohol; failing to stop at the scene of an accident, and failing to render assistance.
King appeared before Magistrate Charlyn Artiga at the Number 51 Magistrate’s Court, where he denied all the charges. Apart from the $1 million bail on the
Dead: Donovon Jakaran
causing death charge, the defendant was released on self-bail for the other three charges.
Meanwhile, King’s driver’s licence was also suspended until the determination of the matter. The next hearing of the case will be on April 23.
Fifty-four-year-old Donovon Chunilall Baromsi Jakaran, a truck driver of Lot 86 Bloomfield Village, was struck and killed sometime around 20:25h on Wednesday night.
Police reports revealed that an intoxicated King was driving a hire car, HB 7178, proceeding East along the northern carriageway of the road when Jakaran reportedly walked across the road from North to South into the path of the vehicle, resulting in him being struck down.
Jakaran was rushed to the Port Mourant Public Hospital in an unconscious state and was pronounced dead on arrival.
However, the wife of the now dead man, Kamilowattie Mohipat, refuted the version of the Police’s report of her husband’s death, saying Jakaran had no reason to cross the road.
The distraught woman told Guyana Times that she and her husband had gone to the public road to wait for their son who was on his way home, when the man was struck down.
“He was standing in the corner, then I see a car coming and it hit him. He and the car just keep going and then I couldn’t see him, and then the car turn back and drive and go away,” the woman related to this newspaper.
Mohipat further recalled that she began calling out for her husband several times but got no answer. “Then I see something looking like a wood faraway and I went close, then is when I see that is he lying there… His feet were bent up, hands broken, side dig away and his face damage,” the woman revealed.
On Thursday morning, the Police took the driver back to the scene to measure the point of impact to the spot where Jakaran’s body was found, which was 192 feet away.
Meanwhile, a post-mortem examination was conducted on the body of the now dead man on Friday morning at the Skeldon Public Hospital Mortuary by Government Pathologist, Dr Vivekanand Bridgemohan, who gave the cause of death as multiple injuries.
