Aviation officer charged with causing best friend’s death in bike crash

An aviation officer was yesterday hauled before two city magistrates after answering to four charges, including causing the death of his best friend, following a motorbike crash along Mandela Avenue.

Joshua Mentore, 21, of Lot 14 Pattensen, East Coast Demerara, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, where he was granted bail by Senior Magistrate Leron Daly and Magistrate Clive Nurse.

Senior Magistrate Daly read to him the charge that on June 27, at Mandela Avenue, Georgetown, he drove motorcycle CK 7783 in a manner dangerous to the public, thereby causing the death of Kareem Powley, 20, of Tucville, East La Penitence. He was not required to plead to the charge.