Taipei prosecutors yesterday indicted British businessman Zain Dean over alleged involvement in a fatal hit-and-run in Taipei City.
Prosecutors charged Dean with offenses against public safety, involuntary manslaughter and hit-and-run, and asked that the court sentence him to two years and six months in jail.
Dean, 39, chief executive officer of NCL Media UK’s Taiwan branch, has lived in Taiwan for 16 years.
Prosecutors said Dean denied involvement in the accident, saying he had been drinking with friends at a hostess bar until the early hours of the morning on March 25, and that as he was drunk, he was driven home by a pub worker and had no recollection of any accident.
Dean said he sat in the passenger seat.
Prosecutors said the bar worker denied driving Dean home, saying Dean asked him to get out of the car several minutes after leaving the pub.
The pub worker has also denied involvement in the accident.
Prosecutors said security camera footage outside the pub showed the pub worker driving Dean’s car as they left the pub. They added he returned to the club on foot six minutes later.
Prosecutors say the pub worker was unlikely to have driven to the location of the accident on Zhongxiao E Rd Sec 4 from the pub on Songjiang Road and returned within the time period shown in the recording.
In the early hours on March 25, scooter rider Huang Chun-te (黃俊德), 32, was hit from behind and died at the scene.
Video footage from a nearby security camera showed a black Mercedes hitting him and fleeing the scene.
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