By Racquel Porter The driver of the garbage truck that overturned, killing Clan Carthy Primary School student Benjamin Bair three years ago, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to manslaughter in the Home Circuit Court under a plea deal arrangement. Alten Brooks will be sentenced on January 13. The court, in the meantime, has ordered a social enquiry report as well as a copy of his antecedent. The Nine Miles, Bull Bay, St Andrew native, who is in his mid-fifties, also had his bail extended. Brooks was arrested and charged in 2019 after the seven year-old schoolboy was crushed to death on October 28 on the grounds of the primary school. Reports indicate that, about 4:30 p.m., Benjamin was at school when the garbage truck that had been picking up trash on the school compound hit a taxi and then overturned on the boy. It was reported that at the time of the incident the truck was left unmanned and that it slipped down a slope. The driver fled the scene during the incident. He was later arrested and charged. Attorney-at-law Davion Vassell is representing the defendant.
