Man fined $530,000 for Spanish Town joyride crash
Published:Tuesday | January 2, 2024 | 2:38 PM
A St Catherine man who took a car he was given to wash on a joyride and then crashed it while on a chase with the police on New Year's Eve, was today fined a total of $530,000 in the parish court.
Twenty-eight-year-old Kevin Williams was fined $200,000 or six months imprisonment for malicious destruction of property, $200,000 or six months in prison, plus 14 demerit points deducted, for dangerous driving, and $50,000 or 30 days in prison, plus 14 demerit points deducted, for no driver's licence.
He was also fined $50,000 or 30 days for driving away a motor vehicle without the owner's consent and $30,000 or 30 days for no insurance coverage.
Sentencing was handed down by parish court judge Janelle Nelson-Gayle.
The court heard that on December 31, 2023, in Spanish Town, Williams was given a Honda Civic motor car to wash and he drove it away without the owner's permission.
He was spotted by the police and disobeyed a signal to stop.
He took the police on a chase along several roads, which ended on Burke Road where he crashed the vehicle into a bus stop.
He was arrested and subsequently charged.
- Rasbert Turner
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