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« on: July 03, 2007, 01:13:11 PM »A New York police officer takes away a handcuffed ALVIN HENRY after arresting the former Trinidad Olympian inside Prospect Park, Brooklyn, on Sunday night. The Queens resident is charged with rape, sexual misconduct and sexual abuse.
Photo courtesy NY Daily News
Case
Henry was a member of T&T’s 2000 Olympic team in Sydney.
NY press dubbed suspect “the Lovers’ Lane rapist.”
Three sex attacks occurred in Queens, two in Brooklyn.
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NEW YORK police have charged a Trinidadian man—a former Olympic sprinter—who they say is a serial rapist.
Police reported that he struck five times in city parks in Queens and Brooklyn during the past four years.
The arrest of Alvin Henry, 30, a member of T&T’s 2000 Olympic team in Australia, came 16 days after he allegedly raped a woman at gunpoint in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.
After that attack, investigators announced that they had linked the incident to four others in Baisley Park and Roy Wilkins Park in Queens.
US newspapers have been referring to the attacker as “The Lovers’ Lane Rapist.”
That’s because he would target women in couples or who had just been with a boyfriend.
Three attacks occurred in Queens; two in Brooklyn.
The New York Post reported that in some cases, the attacker allegedly watched couples making out.
He also reportedly threatened to post photos of them on the Internet, and then raped the women.
US authorities said they had also linked Henry to the rape, on April 27, of a 15-year-old girl.
She was attacked at 9 pm on a Friday near an entrance inside Prospect Park.
Upon his arrest on Sunday, Henry was hauled to the NYPD’s special victims squad in Brooklyn, where assault victims arrived to pick him out of a line-up, the New York Daily News reported.
Yesterday, the Queens resident was charged with rape, sexual misconduct and sexual abuse, The Associated Press reported.
In Queens, Henry is accused of a rape and an attempted rape during the summer of 2003, as well as a rape on June 11 of this year, NY Newsday reported.
The most recent Prospect Park incident occurred just four days later at around 1 am, when the woman was separated from a male companion by the attacker, the Post reported.
The paper also said Henry had returned to Trinidad after allegedly committing two attacks in 2003, but returned to New York this year.
On the record
ALVIN HENRY used sport to get his life back on track after being placed at the St Michael’s School for Boys at the age of 14.
He did not win a medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, but two years later won bronze as a member of the 4x100 metres team at the CAC Games in El Salvador.
It was the last athletic success for Henry who soon after left for the US.
A former national Under-16 footballer, Henry ran both the 100 and 200 metres and also threw the javelin and shot put events.
Alvin Henry
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