The breathalyser device used to test former Guyana Defence Force Chief of Staff Gary Best after he fatally struck cyclist Jude Bentley had not been calibrated in over one year and this was among reasons for city magistrate Rhondel Weever’s decision to find that there was not enough evidence to support the causing death by dangerous driving charge against the former army head.
Bentley, 41, was killed after he was struck from behind in the vicinity of the Russian Embassy turn on February 8 at around 4.31 am by a Toyota Land Cruiser, driven by Best.
According to one of Best’s attorneys, Nigel Hughes, the magistrate ruled that prosecution failed to establish enough evidence to support the charge and thus upheld the no-case submission that had been made by the defence.
