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Homestretch Avenue accident…City taxi driver granted bail for causing death
A taxi driver was yesterday placed on $250,000 bail on a charge of causing the death of a basketball player on Homestretch Avenue, Georgetown last week.
Dead: Quacy Leigh
Wendell Sooklall, of Lot 353 Cummings Street, Georgetown yesterday appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry charged with the death of and was arraigned for 20-year-old Quacy-Quinn Leigh’s death.
The charge was that on February 18, last, he drove motor car PPP 6592 in a manner dangerous to the public on Homestretch Avenue, and caused Leigh’s death.
Sooklall pleaded not guilty and later submitted a bail application through his lawyer. His case is being prosecuted by Inspector Michael Grant.
About 22:00 hours that evening the 20-year-old was riding his bicycle with his cousin. They were heading home from basketball practice at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall when he was hit from behind by the taxi driver.
Leigh, who resided at Lot 324 East Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was reportedly rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) in an unconscious state and later succumbed.
In making a bail application, his lawyer urged the court to offer her client a court bond stating that Sooklall is not a flight risk and has no previous brushes with the law.
She added that her client has been cooperating with the police and had been placed on $100,000 station bail.
The prosecution did not object. The matter was adjourned to April 1.
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