Bus driver Salill Budhoo will face a new trial for the dangerous driving death of a pensioner after the state on Thursday won its appeal against the dismissal of the charge in 2013.
Acting Chancellor Yonette Cummings-Edwards, and Justices of Appeal Rishi Persaud and Dawn Gregory ruled in the state’s favour, finding that presiding magistrate Alex Moore had erred by not allowing the prosecution’s available witnesses to testify at Budhoo’s trial for causing the death of 76-year-old Ramdularie Singh.
Chancellor Cummings-Edwards said that the case was not tried on its merits and as a result, Budhoo will have to be charged and placed before the courts again, though before a different magistrate.
