Delroy Rodney, the Westmoreland taxi operator who beforehand pleaded responsible to 5 counts of dying by harmful driving following a motorized vehicle accident in November 2023, has been sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment suspended for 3 years.
Rodney obtained the judgement this afternoon throughout his sentencing listening to within the Westmoreland Circuit Courtroom, which was presided over by Excessive Courtroom Justice Courtney Daye.
Rodney was sentenced to 18 months on every of the 5 counts, with all of the sentences to run concurrently.
Moreover, he has been ordered to pay $500,000 on every rely, to the surviving households of the 5 victims.
He’s additionally not allowed to carry or receive a driver’s license for the following three years.
Throughout sentencing, Justice Daye famous that whereas the utmost sentence for inflicting dying by harmful driving is 5 years imprisonment, Rodney was given a decreased sentence on account of his early plea of responsible, his expression of regret, and his earlier clear legal report.
Rodney was arrested on November 15, 2023, two days after the Toyota Noah motorized vehicle wherein he was transporting passengers collided with a Shacman truck alongside the Bluefields major highway in Westmoreland.
The 5 individuals who perished within the crash are 15-year-old schoolgirl Lavecia Forrester and her 39-year-old mom, Petrina Wallace, of Gordon district, in Whitehouse; Oneil Allen and his mom, 65-year-old Angela Samuel, of Mount Edgecombe; and 54-year-old Janet Thompson, of a McAlpine tackle.
Rodney was represented by attorneys Lambert Johnson and Religion Salmon throughout his sentencing listening to.
– Christopher Thomas
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