Post by Neo|*|Origin on Sept 22, 2011 9:29:33 GMT 8
BUCHAREST (AFP) - A Romanian diplomat charged with manslaughter in Singapore on Wednesday called for a timing test, which lawyers claimed would prove that he was not driving the car involved in a fatal crash.
Silviu Ionescu's lawyers asked for a re-enactment of the diplomat's drive on the night of Dec 15, 2009, when two pedestrians were severely injured and one killed.
The Bucharest court granted the request and set a new hearing for Dec 14.
'What we want is a legal experiment where experts measure the time and the distance covered by the car, under similar weather conditions and with all the details mentioned by prosecutors', Cristian Ene, one of the diplomat's lawyers, told AFP.
source: Straits Times