81-Yr-Old Faces Grievous Bodily Harm Charge
Smith’s Parish resident, 81 year old Davis Tannock this morning [Mar 27] pleaded not guilty when he appeared in Magistrates Court to causing grievous bodily harm to another person by driving without due care and attention, in Devonshire, on 5th February 2014.
Acting Magistrate Justin Williams granted Mr Tannock bail of $2,000 and set a Mention two weeks hence.
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Sad all around.
I’m sorry Mr. Tannock but at age 81 it may be better for you and others around that age to be using public transport. This will save the elderly from going through life with a clean record only to find they now are now treated like criminals. Yes I know I’ll be in this position in the near future but it may save me from the same fate.
What an ignorant comment. You don’t even know the circumstances surrounding the incident. Who are you to say that people in their 80′s should use public transport? I know people in their 80′s who are more than capable of driving a car safely. If you ask me, some if these younger drivers need to be taken off the roads.
I think you are right concerning the young drivers. But concerning the elderly, I think a mandatory yearly test, purely for lucidness and awareness, should be given to them. All for road safety sake of course.
They should be charging whatever person down at TCD that renewed his license!
Causing grievous bodily harm is not due to traffic accidents, and I cannot believe the judge would associate the two together, especially seeing as this is an elderly man of old age who could be someone’s grandfather. We all know nobody that age drives wreckless on purpose, and he probably made an alleged mistake like most elderly drivers do. Everyone drives a little more cautious around the elderly drivers, it is part of the circle of life.
But for a judge to leap on saying it is grievous bodily harm puts it into the category of assault, and this is ludicrous. Unless that old man allegedly intentionally drove into someone as some assassination attempt, this charge is ludicrous and slanderous.
Right path, but wrong comment. Not the judge but the prosecution.
The law applies to us all, mate. Allegedly driving without due care and attention and seriously injuring someone as a result, is a criminal offence.
You don’t get ‘let off’ just because of your age.