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Robinson appeals to get licence back

servant Ernest Owen has applied to get his driver's licence back.Glenn Envoy Robinson has filed a writ against the Crown in the Supreme Court Registry for the removal of a disqualification from driving all motor vehicles.

servant Ernest Owen has applied to get his driver's licence back.

Glenn Envoy Robinson has filed a writ against the Crown in the Supreme Court Registry for the removal of a disqualification from driving all motor vehicles.

Robinson, 56, of Kitty's Lane, Hamilton Parish, was banned from driving in late 1997 after he pleaded guilty in Supreme Court to dangerous driving on March 25, 1995.

Puisne Judge Norma Wade-Miller fined Robinson $1,000 and banned him from driving all motor vehicles for two and a half years.

The prosecutor accepted the accident occurred on a blind bend on Harbour Road, Paget near Salt Kettle, and offered no objections to the plea.

After five hours of deliberation in August, 1997, a Supreme Court jury found Robinson not guilty of causing the death by reckless driving of Mr. Owen, the Permanent Secretary of Home Affairs.

Robinson was also found not guilty of driving while impaired, and not guilty of refusing to give a breath sample.

The jury deadlocked on a charge of dangerous driving and a suggested alternative charge of careless driving.

In March 1998, Susan Owen, acting as executor of her husband's estate, filed a writ against Robinson. It is not known what stage that legal action has reached.