Drunk driver to be charged for Pinay's death in Cyprus

The 26-year-old drunk driver who hit and killed a domestic worker while she was sweeping the pavement outside her workplace in Cyprus last Saturday will be charged on three counts, the police said police. The 28-year-old Filipino domestic worker was killed at around 6.40 a.m. on December 22 in Limassol when she was sweeping the pavement in between two parked cars after a drunk driver hit one of the cars, throwing her onto the other vehicle. The driver, a 26-year-old Cypriot man, was three times over the alcohol consumption limit, with a final breathalyser test showing 72 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 milliliters, although the legal limit is 22 micrograms, police said. The domestic worker was taken by ambulance to Limassol hospital, where the doctor on duty announced her dead on arrival.   The 26-year-old was remanded in custody for two days after which he was released pending charges that will be filed in court. According to police sources, the driver was remanded in custody for two days because that was all the time needed by police to complete their investigations. They are now in the process of preparing a charge sheet which will include the following three charges: causing death by negligence; driving under the influence impeding his ability to drive safely and driving over the legal limit. The maximum jail sentence for the following charges is four years in jail, said the police source. - Philippine News