A 25-year-old man was, on Monday, sentenced to three years in prison for an armed robbery he committed on a woman 10 years ago, during which he also allegedly raped her.
The sentence was handed down to Travis Evans, of ‘C’ Field, Sophia, Georgetown by Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall at the Georgetown High Court. Initially, Evans had confessed to the rape and the robbery charges which read that, on October 30, 2010, in the county of Demerara, while being armed with a knife, he robbed a woman of $650,500 and also engaged in sexual penetration with her.

However, when the matter called on Monday for sentencing, it was related to the court that Evans had indicated that he felt pressured to plead guilty to the rape charge.
Thus, the judge struck out the guilty plea for rape for Evans, which means that he will have to stand trial for the indictment at the next sitting of the Demerara Assizes. The guilty plea for the robbery was maintained and he was sentenced to three years in prison.

Evans is already on remand for two counts of murder and was one of three prisoners who escaped from the Lusignan Prison on October 15, 2018. He was recaptured days after.
The particulars of the first charge stated that, between July 31 & August 2, 2018, at Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke-Linden Highway, East Bank Demerara (EBD), he, while in the company of others, murdered Gregory Wayne Frank, during the course of a robbery.

According to reports, Frank, 46, a legal clerk of Lot 686 Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke-Linden Highway, was found dead in a pool of blood in his house in August and it was suspected that he might have been killed during a burglary.

An autopsy revealed that Frank died from asphyxiation due to a compression injury to the neck, compounded by blunt trauma to the head. The police had said Frank’s body, “with a swollen forehead,” was discovered around 04:30 hours in the living room of his house.
The statement had noted that the rear door to Frank’s house was found ajar and the entire house was ransacked. Valuables were also reported missing from the house.

On August 20, 2018, Evans was also charged with the murder of his friend and he appeared before Magistrate Zamilla Ally-Seepaul at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court. It was alleged that Evans, on August 2, 2018, at ‘C’ Field, Sophia, shot and killed 21-year-old Ronsley Clarke of Fire Station Road, Timehri, during an argument.