Just before midnight on Saturday a mechanic who was reportedly speeding along the Coldingen Access Road fatally struck a female special constable. He fled the scene twice and hot-wired his car in the second escape but he was later apprehended by police.

Marva McNabb, 42, of Lot 111 Third Street, Non Pariel, East Coast Demerara was walking home when she was struck by the car. The woman, relatives told this newspaper, had disembarked a minibus shortly before and was under a street light…..