Bridgetown.
John Russell Senior of Dolphin Park, St Patrick's was remanded to HMP Dodds when he appeared in the District A Magristrate accused of causing the death of Joshua Boyce of 4th Avenue, Skeetes Road, the Ivy, St. Michael.
Joshua was reportedly struck by a motorcar driven by a man around 10 minutes to six on Friday evening. He was rushed to the QEH by private transportation, and was pronounced dead on arrival.
Accordng to Russell's wife Nicola, her husband was not the driver of the car of the that pinned the toddler to the wall and she wants to know why he is being charged.
Mrs Russell, who was also at The Ivy, St Michael, last Friday night with her husband when the accident occurred, said he was not the driver of the car, neither was he the aggressor in the preceding argument between him and another man.
Public Relations Officer of the Royal Barbados Police Force Inspector David Welch told Trakker News, “There was a dispute and the dispute would have caused the other party to take evasive action that led to the child being struck by the car.”
Mrs Russel said that after the incident, she took her husband to the police station.
“I took John to the police station and they kept him there until 5 p.m on Saturday”, Mrs Russel said.
She said that the police retrieved her husband’s car from the scene and handed it over to him while the vehicle that struck the boy was being held at the station.
Russel was remanded until June 3.
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