SIX years after the driver of a speeding car killed his nine-year-old son; Deodat Loaknauth remains angry, despondent and bewildered that the culprit will never spend a single day behind bars. There are many more Deodat Loaknauths out there crying their guts out for just justice, but their cries will fall on deaf ears.

On August 7, 2006, Ramesh Loaknauth was struck down by a hire car driver in front of his parents’ home at Dryshore, Essequibo Coast.

He never regained consciousness and died seven days later in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

There is now nothing that the still grieving father can do, even though he still occasionally sees the driver who snuffed out his son’s life.
To add to his sense of injustice, Mr. Loaknauth claims that the driver sometimes grins at him.
Mr. Loaknauth, I would advise you to chalk your precious son’s life to the Lord Almighty for there are ‘big ones’ and there are some out there who are the ‘untouchables’ because they  have high connections and/or are filthy rich to pay to get away with murder.
This brought me right back to a dangerous driver who drove her car in a very dangerous manner causing death and grief to another family like yours.
Her high-priced lawyer stood in the presence of the judge and demanded bail be granted since his client had some important business to take care of at Lethem.
Bail was granted. There are other cases out there like yours, Mr. Loaknauth, where families are in total grief knowing they will never get justice for those injustices heaped upon them.
Had these happened to another sector of Guyanese, you bet on it, count on it, that all hell would have broken loose and Guyanese would have been seen marching and protesting, burning and looting, to get justice.
You got to love those people.