Rape accused Wren will know fate today
A BUXOM, brown-skinned 19-year-old beauty told a Demerara Assize jury how she was raped four times between 2003 and 2004 by accused Carl Alleyne Wren, 51, when she was 12 years old. Wren has pleaded not guilty and is being represented by Attorney-at-Law, Mr. Adrian Thompson.
The prosecution’s case, as led by Miss Teshana James-Lake with Mrs. Judith Gildharie-Mursalin, is that the girl resided in an apartment and the accused is housed at the back of the same apartment. 
She was living with her parents and other siblings while the accused was living with a woman who bore a child for him.
The accused, it is said, would from time to time call the girl to his home under the pretence that he wanted her to do an errand for him. On each occasion he would rape her.
Testifying before Justice Winston Patterson and an 11-member jury, the girl said that during the month of October, 2003, she went over to the  home of the accused because he had asked her to help him do something.
She added, “The accused is my cousin’s child father. I was then 12 years old. The accused called me over to his apartment because he wanted me to do something for him. When I turned up, he called me into his bed- room and showed me a pornographic magazine.
“At the time when he was showing me the magazine I was sitting on the bed. I told him that I did not want to see the photographs and I got off the bed and proceeded to leave the bedroom.
“As I was about to leave the bedroom, the accused grabbed me by my waist and pulled me back into the bedroom. He then pushed me onto the bed, took off my underwear and had sexual intercourse with me. After he was finished, I went back to my apartment,” the victim told the prosecutor, in her evidence in chief.
The witness, in answer to the prosecutor, said she could not recall what date in October the rape had been committed. She said she did not tell anyone about what had happened.
She said that day was not the first time that she had gone over to the  apartment of the accused.
Continuing her evidence, she recalled that in the month of November 2003, the accused had also called her over to his apartment where she had sex with him.
According to the girl, in December the accused again called her to his home stating that he wanted her to comb the baby’s hair.
The victim went on to say that in the month of February, 2004, the accused called her to his apartment on the pretence that her cousin was with him. She said that she went into the apartment only to find out that her cousin was no way around.
On that day she tried to run out of the back door but the accused grabbed her and had sex with her again.
The witness recalled the month of July, 2005, when she made a statement to the police after relating to her mother what the accused had done to her.
The girl said she was taken to the hospital where she was examined by a doctor who had given the police a medical certificate.
She also told the court about a confrontation between her and the accused when the accused denied that he had done something wrong to her.    
When asked what work the accused used to do, the victim said she could not recall what he was doing at  present but claimed that in 2003, he (the accused)  was a ‘Chancellor’ on a ship.
When asked by defence counsel whether she had any explanation as to why she did not tell anybody what the accused had done to her, she explained, “I was both embarrassed and insecured”.
The witness also admitted that two other men had raped her and explained that the cases were still pending.
She denied a defence suggestion that the two men who were also charged with rape had been discharged and claimed that they were her cousins.
The prosecution closed its case yesterday resulting in the accused giving evidence on oath. He denied having sex with the victim and claimed that she was his in-law and that the complaint was fabricated because of a family row.
Defence and prosecution lawyers addressed the 11-member jury yesterday.
Some days ago, a member of the 12-member jury was discharged by the judge after the judge accepted an application by the juror.
Justice Patterson will sum up the evidence to the jury today after which he will hand over the case to them for their consideration and verdict.