Roger Bess, the driver who struck and killed an elderly man with his speeding car along Cemetery Road, in Georgetown, just over two years ago, was yesterday sentenced to four years in jail for the crime.
The charge against Bess, of 163 Cummings Street, Bourda, stated that on January 1st, 2015, he drove motor vehicle PNN 7977 in a manner that was dangerous to the public, thereby causing the death of 61-year-old George Barker.
It was the police’s case that Bess was driving south at a fast rate along the eastern carriageway of Cemetery Road when he advanced on a speed bump, which caused him to lose control of the car, resulting in the car colliding with two stalls and Barker, Brian Devine and Anaynasa Thorne.
Devine passed away after prolonged hospitalisation but Bess was not found liable for his death.
