March 04, 2025
A 25-year-old man has been charged with inflicting demise by harmful driving following an incident on October 4, 2024 alongside St John’s most important highway in St James.
The incident resulted within the demise of Constable Linroy Codner. The accused has been recognized as Dillon Reid, in any other case generally known as ‘CJ’ or ‘Bulby’ of the Blackshop district, additionally in St James. Experiences from the Montego Bay police are that at 3 p.m., Codner was on responsibility when he was mowed down by Reid, who was driving a white Toyota Probox. Reid fled the scene and deserted the car in his neighborhood after the incident. Codner was assisted to hospital, the place he obtained remedy for a number of mind accidents; he succumbed on October 20.
Reid turned himself in to the police a day after the incident along with his lawyer and was interviewed. A file was thereafter submitted to the Workplace of the Director of Public Prosecutions for a ruling. On February 21, it was beneficial that he be charged. Reid was formally charged every week later, after he once more surrendered to custody along with his lawyer.
Reid is scheduled to seem within the St James Parish courtroom on March 12.
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