Police Constable Simion Alder was this week sentenced to three years and six months in prison over a 2020 accident which resulted in the deaths of three of his friends at Whim, Corentyne.
Alder, of Corriverton, was charged in December, 2020, at the Whim Magistrate’s Court. He was accused of causing the deaths of Quacy Lewis, 21, Jessica Leitch, 21, and Reon Moriah, 25, who all suffered fatal injuries after the car in which they were travelling and driven by Alder crashed into a lorry that was in the process of parking on August 2, 2020 along the Whim Public Road.
At the Whim Magistrate’s Court via Zoom this week, Magistrate Renita Singh sentenced Alder to three years and six months on one causing of death charge and six months each on two counts of dangerous driving after he was found guilty.
