…prosecution to close case today
THE virtual complainant in the East Coast Demerara rape trial told an assize judge and jury  that  she was going home from work one night when the accused Devon Mc Farlene, called ‘Kang’,  held her up at gunpoint and raped her. The young married woman, a security guard, said that it was between the 11th and 12th day of January, 2009, when the accused, who was armed with a long gun with a sling, attacked her on the Barefoot Road and forced her under gun point to an unfinished concrete  house, where he raped her.
The woman who claimed that she knew the accused, went home and reported the matter to her husband.
According to her, they reported the matter to the police the next day.
The police accompanied them to the scene. Not far away, she saw the accused, with his rasta style hair, sitting on a bridge. She pointed him out to the police.
The police told him that he was not obliged to say anything unless he wished to do so, but whatever he said would be taken in writing and given in evidence.
After hearing this, he turned to the  woman and  said,  “I am  a married  man, I know  your husband, I would not do that to  you.”
The police then invited the accused to put his oral statement in writing, but he refused. He was later arrested and charged.
Yesterday Defence Counsel Mr. Ronald Burch-Smith cross-examined the  husband of the victim and  the policewoman who took the victim to the doctor.
Prosecuting in the matter before Justice Roxanne George are Mrs. Judith Gildharie-Mursalin and Miss  Retina Singh.
The hearing continues this morning.