Sophia hit-and-run motorcyclist nabbed by citizens

Afya Harte

 

By Roger Wong

 

After hitting a primary school child with his speeding motorcycle in Sophia on Saturday, the rider, who fled the scene and later escaped from police, was nabbed and handed over to the lawmen yesterday.

Afya Harte was standing at the corner of a street in ‘A’ Field, Sophia on Saturday at about 5:15pm when the scrambler bike came rumbling through the narrow street, swerved and hit the child, her mother Chineza Harte told Stabroek News yesterday. Afya’s cousin Shania who was with her at the time, related that after her cousin was hit, she flicked over before toppling on the road. The child related that a young lady who was close by, called out to the motorcyclist asking him