–granted $200,000 bail after appeal
TRENTON Woolford, sentenced by a magistrate to 56 months’ imprisonment for causing the death of Bhorose Henry by dangerous driving on July 4, 2010, appealed the decision, and was yesterday allowed bail in the sum of $200,000 by the Guyana Court of Appeal. Constituted by Acting Chancellor of the Judiciary, Mr. Carl Singh, O.R., Justice of Appeal, Yonette Cummings-Edwards and Justice Winston Patterson, the Guyana Court of Appeal granted Woolford bail after concluding that his grounds of appeal were meritorious.
Senior Counsel, Mr. Bernard De Santos, S.C., argued the petition on the defendant’s behalf. Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Miss Jo-Ann Barlow, represented the Director of Public Prosecutions.
The defendant was charged with the offence of causing death by dangerous driving.

In his submissions, Mr. De Santos disclosed that:
The evidence was most consistent with fault on the part of the deceased, as the prosecution’s witnesses support that inference based on where the bicycle and the body of the deceased were positioned. It should be noted that there was no damage to the left hand side of Woolford’s car, which would have been inevitable had it swerved to the south or left and struck the bicycle. Further, were that the case, the inference consistent with the prosecution’s witnesses’ common sense expectation was that the bicycle and the body would have been on the southern side of the road.
Having regard to the foregoing, it was respectfully submitted that a no-case submission would have been well founded, and the charge before the magistrate should have been dismissed, De Santos submitted.
The senior counsel had told the Court of Appeal that the magistrate’s decision was a perverse one.