Rohan Marley Facing Jail Time?

Rohan Marley may be facing jail time in Jamaica over car crash...

From Jamacia Gleaner

An application has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking to have businessman Rohan Marley sent to prison for failing to pay nearly $15 million in damages stemming from a 2016 motor vehicle crash. Rohan is the son of Jamaican music legend Bob Marley.

On April 15, 2016 at about 2:10 p.m., there was an accident along Half Way Tree Road in the parish of Saint Andrew. It involved motor car registered 9115 EH driven by Trudy-Anne Silent-Hyatt, a Marketing and Public Relations Consultant, and motor truck, registered CE 9933, owned by Rohan Anthony Marley and driven by Jason Davion Walters, an Electrician/Repairs and Maintenance Consultant. They were both travelling in the same direction with Mrs Silent-Hyatt driving in front of Mr Walters when Mr Walters collided in the rear of her car.

The 1 st Defendant filed a Defence on November 4, 2016, while the 2 nd Defendant filed his Defence on January 6, 2017. Both Defences are identical in content. They admit that they are owner and driver, respectively, of the motor vehicle bearing registration number CE 9933, and deny that the 2 nd Defendant “slammed into the rear of the motor vehicle being driven by the Claimant approximately 5–6 seconds after the Claimant had come to a complete stop”. They state that the Claimant came to a sudden and abrupt stop when a taxi ahead of her was stopped by a policeman, and that the 2 nd Defendant received no prior warning of her intention to stop and he attempted to avoid colliding with her but was unable to do so, “ despite his best efforts”.