GDF rank charged with causing death of Providence woman

Mar 18, 2021 News

Dead: Ameena Sooklall.

Kaieteur News – A Lance Corporal of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) was yesterday charged with causing the death of a Providence, East Bank Demerara, woman by dangerous driving.
The defendant, 23-year-old, Jason Butters, of Onderneeming, West Bank Demerara, and his lawyer, Stanley Moore, S.C., appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before Chief Magistrate, Ann McLennan.
Butters denied the charge which alleged that on December 15, 2020, on the McDoom Public Road, East Bank Demerara, he drove motor vehicle, PPT 4166, in a manner dangerous to the public and thereby causing the death of Ameena Sooklall.
In Moore’s address to the court, he stated that his client is innocent and made a bail application for Butters in a reasonable amount.
The Police Prosecutor made no objection to bail being granted to Butters citing the fact that he was already placed on station bail.
The prosecutor added that according to the facts of the charge, on the day in question around 23:45 hrs. Butters was heading to Georgetown and while in the vicinity of the Shell Gas Station he fell asleep on the wheel, crashing into the median.
As a result of the crash, Sooklall who was in the passenger seat was pinned and received multiple injuries about her body. She was taken out of the wreckage and rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
It was reported that Butters was also hospitalized. After he was discharged, he was arrested and subsequently charged with causing the death of Sooklall by dangerous driving.
After hearing the facts of the charge, Chief Magistrate, McLennan, granted him bail in the sum of $150,000 and the matter was adjourned to March 23, 2021.

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