Four in dock over crash boy death

Oct 25 2005 By Steve Johnson, Birmingham Mail

THREE members of the same Oldbury family were due to go on trial today in connection with the tragic death of a soccer-mad Smethwick schoolboy.

Little Dexter Watts, aged seven, of Devonshire Road, was killed in a road accident in High Street, Smethwick, on August 30 last year, just minutes after playing in a football tournament with his friends in Victoria Park.

He suffered head and internal injuries in the accident and died later in Birmingham's City Hospital.

His parents, Tracey Green and Lee Watts, had him baptised on his deathbed and the Birmingham City anthem Keep Right On To The End Of The Road was played at his funeral attended by hundreds of mourners.

Husband and wife Sarjit Kumar Sahota, 28, and Sonia Sahota, 26, together with Sarjit's sister Salochana Devi, 24, all of Mushroom Hall Road, Oldbury, were due to go on trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court today.

They are all accused of perverting the course of justice following the accident.

Sarjit Sahota is also charged with driving without a proper licence and having no insurance.

Sonia Sahota faces the same insurance charge and a further charge of causing or permitting a person to drive without a proper licence.

The three have denied all the charges.