More than a year after four-year-old Trichel Williams was struck down and killed along the Plantation Foulis Public Road, the carpenter who caused her death is now behind bars.
Naresh Gafoor, 39, of Lot 404 Block 8, Mon Repos was found guilty on June 25, 2014– exactly one year after the girl’s death–of causing the young girl’s death but was recently handed the four-year sentence by Magistrate Rondell Weaver of the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court.
Gafoor was charged with driving a car in a dangerous manner to the public and causing the death of Williams on June 25, 2013.
According to the police’s facts, Williams and her six-year-old brother had been standing on the southern side of the public round shortly after 8am when the older of the two attempted to cross the road. Williams, it is said, was left behind and attempted to follow her brother soon afterwards. However, in the process she was struck down by a fast moving car bearing licence plate PGG 2527.
An unconscious Williams was rushed to the Mahaicony Public Hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.
The carpenter was subsequently arrested and charged.
