Rasbert Turner, Star Writer
The driver of the ill-fated car which resulted in the death of a mother and child has been granted bail in the sum of $1.5 million.
He is George Richardson, 62-year-old taxi operator of Hellshire Park, St Catherine.
He is charged with the deaths of Jaharian Durrant, who is in her 30s, and five-year-old Jascinth Haynes, both of Hellshire Heights, St Catherine.
When the case was mentioned in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, attorney-at-Law Andrew Irving made a successful bail application.
He said Richardson was not a flight risk and will return for his trial. Bail was originally set at $2 million but the lawyer successfully asked that it be reduced. It was then reduced to $1.5 million with one, two or three sureties.
The accident occurred about 6 a.m. September 3, along the Hellshire main road in St Catherine.
It is said that Richardson was driving his 1999 Toyota Camry motor car with six passengers along the Hellshire main road. He allegedly overtook a line of traffic and crashed into a utility pole.
Durrant and Haynes were seated behind. They suffered serious injuries and were pronounced dead at hospital.
Richardson was among persons treated at hospital.
He is to reappear in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate’s Court on December 9.
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Taxi man granted bail after death of mother, child
