RASBERT TURNER, STAR Writer
SPANISH TOWN
A 47-year-old truck driver who is charged with two counts of manslaughter, will have his preliminary enquiry on April 19. He is Patrick Chuck of Bushy Park, St. Catherine.
The Crown led evidence in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court that about 4 p.m. on January 14, Chuck was driving a Leyland truck from Spanish Town towards Old Harbour, St. Catherine, when upon reaching a section of the McCooks Pen main road, the truck got out of control and killed two sisters, Giselle Edwards, 9, and Amoy, 8.
The court heard that the sisters, after catching water, stopped at a plum tree to pick fruit when the truck got out of control and killed them on the spot.
When the case came up for mention on Thursday, the prosecution and the defence decided on the date for the preliminary enquiries . The truck driver is being defended by attorney-at-law Sean Kinghorn, who asked the RM to extend Chuck's $150,000 bail bond.
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