Mar 2, 2010
Taxi Driver Gets Just Nine Months In Prison For Vehicular Manslaughter
Apparently due to some skillful begging and impassioned pleas from his lawyer, taxi driver Ewart Stephenson got off lightly in the Home Circuit Court yesterday, when he was sentenced to nine months imprisonment for mowing down and killing a motorcyclist while trying to elude the police. He reportedly had a car full of ganja, hence his attempts to escape the police.
The court heard evidence that Stephenson was traveling through Porus in Clarendon, and that his vehicle was full of marijuana. The police attempted to pull over his vehicle, but he continued driving. Police officers several miles down the road attempted to intercept Stephenson’s vehicle, but he managed to elude them as well. Stephenson then reportedly turned off the lights on his vehicle while driving, and later struck the motorcyclist, who died on the spot.
Following intensive investigations, Stephenson was arrested and charged a month later.