Man gets bail for killing 7-year-old

Jul 10, 2014 News

After spending more than three weeks as a remand prisoner, the 28-year-old maintenance worker charged in relation to

Accused: Jermaine Carrol

the road accident that killed a Grade Two St. Pius Primary School pupil, was granted bail.
It was Jermaine Carrol’s third bail application and Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry granted it at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, yesterday.
On June 16, Carrol, appeared before the Chief Magistrate and was formally arraigned on two charges – cause of death by dangerous driving and for driving an uninsured car.
On June 12, last, on Freeman Street, East La Penitence he allegedly drove a car PPP5831 in a manner dangerous to the public causing seven-year-old Joseph Quallis’ death.
He was accused too of using the said car which, at the time, was not covered by third party risk insurance.
Carrol pleaded not guilty and sought bail.
At his third court hearing, yesterday, another bail application was submitted to the court by Attorney at Law, Paul Fung-a-Fat, who asked the court to consider that his client had been a remand prisoner for “quite a while” and that there is no evidence of speed or that his client was intoxicated at the time.
The lawyer said, too, that Carrol had never been involved in any road accident before.
Corporal Mangru on this occasion did not offer objections to bail.
Responding, the Chief Magistrate granted bail in the sum of $400,000 with the condition that Carrol reports to the Subordinate Officer in charge of the Traffic Department at the Ruimveldt Police Station.