Guilty unlicensed hire car driver off to jail

Mar 27, 2010 News

Brian Backer, of 6 Republic Road New Amsterdam, will be spending the next few months in jail after he pleaded guilty of nine charges for traffic offences and disorderly behaviour that included him assaulting a peace officer.
He appeared before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo for behaving disorderly on Tuesday March 23, last, at New Amsterdam Public Road traffic office. In court he pleaded guilty and was fined $10,000 with an alternative of 20 days in prison while he also pleaded guilty to exceeding the speed limit.
That same day, on Esplanade Road, in New Amsterdam, while driving motorcar HB 6842, he exceeded the speed limit. He was fined $7,500 with an alternative of 20 days in jail.
On the same day he failed to confirm to traffic signs and drove down a one way street after the police stopped him. For that he was fined $20,000 or 12 weeks in jail.
Dangerous driving was also a charge for which he pleaded guilty.
He was also charged for driving the vehicle in a dangerous manner, hitting police constable Philbert Wilbourgh. He was fined $30,000 with an alternative of 12 weeks in jail.
He racked up another fine of breach of insurance on the same day, earning a $25,000 fine or an additional twelve weeks in the pen.
Then came the unlicensed hire car driver charge. Backer again made a guilty plea; this attracted a fine of $20,000 or an additional twelve weeks behind bars.
When he was stopped by police he did not have a valid hire car licence.
He also assaulted police constable Wilbourgh, a peace officer on the same day at the Central Berbice Police Traffic Office and the magistrate fined him $20,000 or an alternative of twelve weeks for that offence.
He was charged also for being an untidy driver as on the day of the incident he was dressed in a pair of slippers and a pair of three quarter pants. That attracted a fine of $3,000 or an additional 20 days in jail.
He was also charged for resisting arrest at the Central Police Station and was fined $20,000 or 12 weeks in jail.
Backer, who was deported from the USA 20 years ago, told the magistrate that he thought that the permit he had since then was still valid.
The man who said that he could ill afford the fines has been sent to jail. When he asked for leniency the Magistrate reportedly told him that he should not have been driving without licence.

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