– slapped with three charges
HAFRAZ Mangroo, the 25-year-old driver of the vehicle which killed a woman on the Liliendaal Public Road last Wednesday evening, was slapped with three charges yesterday.
He appeared before Magistrate Sueann Lovell at Sparendaam Court, also on the East Coast of Demerara, where he was remanded to prison until March 7.

One charge said he caused the death of 37-year-old Lavena Williams-Tull, of Lot 180 Linden Drive, Melanie Damishana, by dangerous driving.
Mangroo, of Lot 180 Sparendaam East Coast Demerara, was also charged with driving under the influence of alcohol above the legal limit and without being certified.
He was unrepresented in court yesterday, pleaded guilty to one of the three charges and not guilty to the other two.
The Magistrate, before reading the allegations, told the young man that he was not required to plead to the indictable charge of causing death by dangerous driving.
Details of it said Mangroo, on Wednesday, February 5, on a road in the Sparendaam Magisterial District drove GMM 4626 in a manner dangerous to the public, causing the death of pedestrian Lavena Williams-Tull, of Melanie Damishana, East Coast Demerara.
LEGAL LIMIT

He was also charged with driving while exceeding the legal limit of alcohol, to the extent that he was incapable of controlling the vehicle he was driving.
The other charge said he was driving an uncertified vehicle as he drove the motor pick-up while there was no certificate in force at the time.
Asked if he was married and had children, Mangroo responded in the negative to both questions but informed the court that he is in the exporting business.
In her presentation to have him denied bail, Police Inspector Anthony said she was opposing the granting of bail on the basis that he was under the influence when he hit the pedestrian who was standing in the corner awaiting transportation.
She said the speed at which the driver was travelling is cause for alarm, as well, since the woman was flung some 50 feet from where she was standing and the vehicle came to a halt in a ditch 400 feet from the point of impact.
The Prosecutor said there is evidence to support the Police claims and facts, including witnesses who are willing to testify.
After listening to the Prosecutor, Magistrate Lovell fined Mangroo $25,000, with the alternative of three weeks imprisonment, on the uncertified vehicle charge since he pleaded guilty to it.
With respect to the driving under the influence charge, he was ordered to post $75,000 surety.
NO BAIL
No bail was fixed for the causing death by dangerous driving and, when the case is called again, on March 7, it will be for report and fixture.
Among those in court yesterday were the husband, father and another relative of the dead woman, who worked as a receptionist at the City Holiday Inn opposite where she was killed.
She was awaiting transportation to go home when she was hit. At the time, it was raining and there were pools of water on the roadway.
One eyewitness said he was driving behind the ill-fated vehicle when he observed that the driver jumped the red light at Conversation Tree on the Rupert Craig Highway and as it approached the Ocean View Hotel, the pick-up began to hydroplane.
Then he heard an impact and, subsequently, realised that the vehicle in front of him had struck someone. Upon investigating, he found that a woman had been flung from the roadway into a corner, almost to the entrance of the City Hotel Inn lobby, spanning a drain.
Written By Leroy Smith