An­na-Lisa Paul

Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard is ex­pect­ed to make a de­ci­sion in the Sea Lots ac­ci­dent case to­mor­row.It is ex­pect­ed to be de­liv­ered once the po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tor, Supt Moses Charles, re­turns to Gas­pard with fur­ther in­for­ma­tion.Gas­pard re­quest­ed fur­ther in­for­ma­tion Charles af­ter he him­self vis­it­ed the scene of the ac­ci­dent with of­fi­cers on Mon­day.

The T&T Guardian con­firmed that Gas­pard ac­com­pa­nied Deputy Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Mervyn Richard­son and Charles to the scene along the west­bound lane of the Beetham High­way around 5 pm.The vis­it was at the be­hest of the DPP, who gave the in­ves­ti­ga­tor "cer­tain ad­vice with a view to ty­ing up loose ends," at the end of the vis­it.

Speak­ing with the T&T Guardian yes­ter­day, Gas­pard said Charles was set to re­turn with the com­plet­ed file to­mor­row, and he would make a de­ci­sion then."The in­ves­ti­ga­tor is ex­pect­ed to re­turn on Thurs­day and all things be­ing equal, I an­tic­i­pate I will make a de­ci­sion one way or the oth­er in this mat­ter on Thurs­day," Gas­pard said.

"I am keen to make a de­ci­sion in this mat­ter. I un­der­stand why there is pub­lic dis­qui­et and jus­ti­fi­ably so, since this mat­ter in­volves the deaths of three per­sons, in­clud­ing two chil­dren, on the one side and a po­lice of­fi­cer on the oth­er side, and in cer­tain quar­ters, the pub­lic anx­i­ety may al­so have been fu­elled ow­ing to the length of time that the in­ves­ti­ga­tion has tak­en and be­cause of cer­tain re­marks which would have found them­selves in the pub­lic do­main."

Gas­pard al­so met with Charles and of­fi­cials from the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty yes­ter­day.Re­fer­ring to the po­lice of­fi­cer in­volved the ac­ci­dent, Gas­pard said: "There are al­so se­ri­ous al­le­ga­tions which may be hang­ing over the head of the dri­ver of the ve­hi­cle, and for his sake as well as the fam­i­lies of the de­ceased and in­jured per­sons, a speedy and ex­pe­di­tious res­o­lu­tion of this mat­ter must be sought."

Haydee Paul, 28, and her daugh­ters, Shaki­ra, sev­en, and Akasha, eight, were on their way home from the Cen­tral Mar­ket on Feb­ru­ary 24, when a car dri­ven by an off-du­ty po­lice­man mount­ed the pave­ment along the west­bound lane of the Beetham High­way and knocked down six peo­ple.Paul and her daugh­ters were killed in­stant­ly, while three oth­ers, Abi­gail Ass­ing, 31, Ryan Ram­per­sad, 20, and Aman­da Lal­la, 50, were se­ri­ous­ly in­jured.

Ass­ing was dis­charged from the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal two weeks ago, while Ram­per­sad and Lal­la re­main ward­ed at the In­ten­sive Care Unit, still in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion.