A 31-year-old Arima father of one who raped a young woman in a churchyard in St Augustine, four years ago, was yesterday sentenced to a total of 35 years hard labour and ordered to receive ten strokes with the birch.
Jeremy Paul bowed his head as the sentences were handed down by Justice Alice Yorke-Soo Hon in the Port-of-Spain Second Criminal Court yesterday.
He was recently convicted of kidnapping, rape and robbery by a Port-of-Spain jury.
Kathy Ann Waterman-Latchoo prosecuted while Richard Mason represented Paul.
Paul ,whose sentences are to run concurrently, received a tongue lashing from the judge who said society must be protected from people like him.
Paul had followed his victim from a maxi-taxi in which they were travelling on October 13, 2003, and raped her in a churchyard in St Augustine.
Justice Yorke-Soo Hon told him he injected fear into his victim, whom, she said, was forced to comply with his criminal acts because she believed he would kill her.
According to her own words she said: “I thought I’d be the first person he’d kill,” Justice Yorke-Soo Hon said.
You committed the offence with extreme boldness,” she said, adding that he raped his victim “without fear” on a church compound in the early hours of the evening.
Paul, who was arrested on the St Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies, was told by the judge that his victim still suffered as a result of the incident. (JL)
ah feel if he did ask fer the dam thing and say please he might ah get it , bur nah yuh want to take it like if iz yours ,ah hope wen he go to jail them boyz dem fix him well .
