Police accused of poor investigation into pensioner’s death

Nov 29, 2015 News

Relatives of a 71-year-old man, who died on Friday after he was struck by a car on Aubrey Barker Street, South Ruimveldt, are pleading with the police to conduct a thorough investigation.
Bernard Blake, of Lot 1743 South Ruimveldt Park, was struck down around 18:45 hrs on Thursday allegedly by a speeding taxi. He was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) but succumbed the following day.
Blake sustained multiple injuries to the head and lacerations to the body.
The driver of the car that struck the 71-year-old man is in police custody assisting with information.
A Traffic Officer, yesterday, told this newspaper that the police are currently preparing a file to send to the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) for advice.
Blake’s relatives do not seem too pleased with the way the police are handling this case.
According to one relative, Lennox Skeete, at the time of the accident, the police did not go to the scene to investigate and to take eyewitnesses reports. In fact, they went the following day (Friday) when the car had already been moved.
Relatives are of the opinion that traffic ranks will prepare a file based on “hearsay” since they did not talk to anyone who witnessed the accident.
Also, Skeete said that a police rank who is investigating the accident asked his wife to give a statement. “She was not there. She did not see what happened so how can she give a statement. She can only say what she heard.”
For information, the relatives are offering a reward to persons who may have witnessed the fatal accident. “We want justice,” Skeete lamented.
According to Skeete, at the time of the accident, the 71-year-old man was heading home. “I was supposed to leave the country on Friday so he came here (Tucville) to collect the keys to the house so that he could feed the dog and so.”
It was while Blake was heading home that he was killed. His relatives claimed that on Thursday while the man was battling for his life, the owner of the taxi service tried to offer a settlement but they insisted that justice must be served.
“No amount of money can bring back a life as precious as that,” one of Blake relatives said.
With Blake’s death, the country has now recorded of 18 deaths during Road Safety Month 2015.

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