Cover-up suspected in head boy crash
2013-01-07 10:08
Cape Town - Many questions have been asked about the car
crash that claimed the life of popular Milnerton High head boy Jake Wooton in
Hermanus in April last year.
Police are apparently finally going to charge the driver of the car
with culpable homicide, but Wooton’s family say it’s too little too late,
reported the Sunday Argus.
“I would like to see the driver charged with murdering my
son, and with seven counts of attempted murder,” the boy’s father, Stephen
Wooton, said.
Numerous claims of shoddy police work on the night of the
crash included the failure to conduct blood alcohol tests on the driver.
Transport MEC Robin Carlisle even suggested that a police
cover-up may have taken place.
He said the case had been handled in a “scandalous” manner.
“I am now concerned that we are dealing with a police
cover-up, as opposed to a case of police inefficiency,” he said.
Wooton said the driver of the car had been drinking at the
same bar as his son shortly before the incident, and said he had been told
there was a possibility that the driver may have driven into his son and his
friends intentionally as they walked along the road in an attempt to scare them or intimidate them.
