Prosecution of security guard closes in rape case
THE prosecution closed yesterday, at the trial of 46-year-old Akeem Alexander alias ‘Mad Man’, 46, before Justice Franklyn Holder and a Demerara Assizes jury. The accused, who is being prosecuted by State Counsel Dianne Kaulesar and Zamilla Ally, on the allegation that he committed the offence on November 15, 2009, is to choose his option for defence when the proceedings continue today.
The alleged victim told the court that she was going home that night when she was attacked on a lonely road at  Grove, East Bank Demerara, by a man she had never previously seen.
She said the rapist was of mixed race, brown-skinned, with curly hair and about five feet three inches tall.
The virtual complainant said, after disembarking a bus, the man, who was walking closely behind her, moved ahead and, suddenly, turned back.
He, then, held her at knifepoint and demanded money and sex. She said, all the cash she had was $1,000 and he took it, dragged her to the nearby parapet and sexually assaulted her, despite her cries.

Stripped
The woman related that she was stripped of her tights and stockings and her other underwear was pulled aside as the man proceeded to commit the crime.
She said he held the knife to her throat while he was raping her.
During the assault, a passing motor car stopped and one of the men inside, apparently attracted by her shoes, enquired to whom the footwear belonged.
The accused then jumped off her and ran away and she told the men, who had disembarked the vehicle, that the man had just raped her and they went after him.
She said the men were able to catch him and took him back to the scene, where they asked her if he was the man who just raped her and she replied in the affirmative.
She said her assailant denied the accusation and claimed that a problem between him and her son led to her making the allegation against him.
The mother of four maintained:” He is the man who raped and robbed me.”
She said she had a clear view of him.
Registered medical practitioner, Dr.  Mohan Persaud, who examined the woman 12 hours after, said there was a clear substance in the vaginal opening and advised her about the possibility of pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease and that she should receive counselling.
In answer to the prosecutor Kaulesar, the doctor said he  would not be able to say whether it was  possible that the  woman’s vagina would have been penetrated by a penis within 24  hours prior to his examination.
He said his examination did not find any abrasion or injury and he was not privy to the result of any examination of the substance which was done at the Clinical Department of Georgetown Public Hospital.