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Oct 26, 2007

Family of hit and run victim beg for justice

Story PictureA hit and run accident in the Belize district has left one man dead. According to investigators, thirty-two year old Herbert Gillett, better known as “Peacemaker,” was riding his bike home around ten on Wednesday night when he was knocked down between miles twenty-seven and twenty-eight on the Northern Highway. The Biscayne villager suffered serious head injuries and died at the scene.

Inspector Calbert Flowers, Head, Rural Executive Office
“We are appealing to the public, anyone with information that can assist us to please contact us.”

Marion Ali
“So nobody has reported seeing or hearing anything in the area at the time?”

Inspector Calbert Flowers
“We are interviewing at this time few persons who we believe can assist us in the information. In fact, we have one person who came forward with some information to us that we are following up at this time.”

Marion Ali
“Would these people be the subject of your investigation as well or just informants?”

Inspector Calbert Flowers
“No, no just persons who were close to the victim, relatives of the victim and we believe that these information can help us, so we’ll definitely look into these information.”

Marion Ali
“Based on what you’ve found out so far, was he hit from behind or from the opposite direction?”

Inspector Calbert Flowers
“Indications are that he has been hit from behind.”

Marcia Gillett, Sister of Hit and Run Victim
“The person neva did stop fi renda aid or nothing; left he right deh fi mek—I noh know if he coulda mi help himself after he get the knock or what, but dah wah motorist call in and tell them that they see wah body pan the ground.”

“I really want dah person who hit him, if he noh got conscious or mind, cause he dah fi we bredda and we love him very much. I just want he come out, say he do it. I just want that because he died left his son, six years. I also had a brother that was in an accident before they shot him and we still don’t find out who do this to him, so I noh want this one to go past, I can’t.”

A post-mortem has determined cause of death as massive head fractures. Estradabran says the injuries to the deceased also suggest that the vehicle involved in the incident was travelling at a very high speed when it hit the bicyclist.


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