Bus driver to answer manslaughter charge

Winston Taylor, the mini bus driver responsible for the death of a seven-year-old schoolboy is to answer to manslaughter charges in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate’s Court today.



Taylor, who is 47 years old, has pleaded guilty to failing to report an accident and driving from the scene of an accident.



He has been fined $10,000 on those charges and his driver\'s license suspended for 18 months.



When Taylor last appeared in court, the presiding judge Resident Magistrate Marcia Dunbar-Green ordered that he be remanded.



It was revealed in court Taylor had been hiding from the police for nine days, following the fatal incident on September 15.



The police say on that day, seven-year-old Dennis Brown, a student of the Independence City Primary School, was on his way home when he was hit by a Toyota Hiace bus, being driven by Taylor.



Taylor did not stop.



The young boy was taken to the Spanish Town Hospital where he died while receiving treatment.