Driver gets one year in jail for dangerous driving, freed of causing boy’s death

A man was yesterday sentenced to one year in jail after being found guilty of several offences, including dangerous driving, but he was found not guilty of causing the death of an 11-year-old child.

Puran Ramoo was sentenced for dangerous driving but freed of causing the death of Amar Veerasammy as a result of dangerous driving. Ramoo was also charged with driving under the influence and with tinted windows. He was found guilty of driving under the influence but acquitted on the charge in relation to tinted windows.

The sentence was handed down yesterday by Magistrate Rondell Weever at the conclusion of Ramoo’s trial at the