San Fernando man charged with rape, false imprisonment

Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter

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A 54-year-old San Fer­nan­do man has been charged with mul­ti­ple se­ri­ous of­fences, stem­ming from the al­leged rape and false im­pris­on­ment of a woman.

Tyran Wal­lace, of Princess Mar­garet Street, San Fer­nan­do, ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter Bethelmy on Mon­day and was re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody.

The charges in­clud­ed rape, griev­ous sex­u­al as­sault, rob­bery, false im­pris­on­ment and as­sault by beat­ing.

The vic­tim, a 38-year-old woman of Mal­gretoute Road, Princes Town, al­leged that the crimes were com­mit­ted against her will dur­ing the pe­ri­od Feb­ru­ary 27 to May 6.

It is al­leged that the sus­pect was ar­rest­ed on May 6 by of­fi­cers of the San Fer­nan­do Po­lice Sta­tion who were on pa­trol when they saw her ly­ing on a road­way in dis­tress.

When Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed the Princes Mar­garet Street com­mu­ni­ty yes­ter­day, res­i­dents said they were shocked by the al­le­ga­tions and claimed they were un­aware such in­ci­dents were al­leged­ly tak­ing place there.

Mean­while, Wal­lace was de­nied bail, and a sta­tus hear­ing was sched­uled for June 25 while a suf­fi­cien­cy hear­ing was set for No­vem­ber 12.