Driver of garbage truck that killed Clan Carthy schoolboy pleads guilty
Published:Wednesday | November 9, 2022 | 6:09 PM
The driver of the garbage truck that overturned, killing Clan Carthy Primary School student Benjamin Bair three years ago, today pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the Home Circuit Court under a plea deal arrangement.
Alten Brooks will be sentenced on January 13 next year.
The court has ordered a social enquiry report as well as a copy of the driver's antecedent.
Bail was extended by the court for the Bull Bay, St Andrew, resident, who is in his mid-50s.
Brooks was arrested and charged in 2019 after the seven-year-old boy was crushed to death on October 28 on the school grounds.
Reports are that about 4:30 p.m., Benjamin was at school when the garbage truck that had been picking up trash hit a taxi and then overturned on the boy.
It was reported that at the time of the incident, the truck was left unmanned and that it slid down a slope.
The driver initially fled the scene.
Attorney-at-law Davion Vassell is representing Brooks.
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