Eyewitness testifies in inquest into death of pedestrian

Sep 12, 2017 Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News

A coroner’s inquest into the death of Sew Persaud, who was struck down and killed by a minibus on April 21, last year, at the Diamond Public Road, East Bank Demerara, continued yesterday before Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman

KILLED: Sew Persaud

in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
The inquest is being conducted to determine whether the driver of the minibus Christopher Bose should be criminally charged for Persaud’s death.
Reports are that Sew Persaud was standing on the road outside the Diamond Diagnostic Centre when the bus bearing license plate PFF 9802 driven by Christopher Bose hit him.
Persaud, who resided at 265 Third Street, Grove, East Bank Demerara, was rushed to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Kaieteur News understands that Persaud left his home around 09:00 hours to travel to Georgetown. He had also planned to visit the Diamond Diagnostic Centre for a routine health check.
His wife, Viola DaSilva, was contacted around 14:30hrs and was informed that her reputed husband was stuck down by the vehicle. The matter was reported to the Grove Police Station.
An eyewitness to the accident, Indal Singh, of Lot 31 Diamond Junior Staff, East Bank Demerara was called to testify. He told the court that on the day in question, he was driving a car heading to Georgetown.
He said that he was travelling in the vicinity of the Diamond Diagnostic Centre when he saw a motorcar which was proceeding along the said road about 40 feet ahead of him.
According to Singh, he noticed a man of East Indian decent attired in a red and white stripe jersey waiting to cross the road at the median which separates the eastern and western carriageway.
He said that the mirror of the bus hit Persaud causing him to fall onto the roadway before the right side back wheel of the vehicle ran over him.
The witness said that he noticed blood flowing from the injured man’s body.
Persaud added that he came out of his car and went to Bose and advised him to report the accident to the police station. The witness told the court Bose was not proceeding at a fast rate.
Also testifying was Rawatie Persaud, a daughter of the deceased.
Rawatie, who resides at Craig, East Bank Demerara told the court that on April 22, 2016, she visited the Georgetown Public Hospital mortuary where she identified the remains of her father to Government Pathologist, Dr. Nehaul Singh in the presence of Police Lance Corporal Persaud.
She said that her father was buried four days later at the Grove Cemetery.

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