Man held following rape at Manchester night club, human trafficking probe launched
2012-08-20 12:08:51 | (0 Comments)

Dave Lindo, Gleaner Writer

A man is now in hospital under police guard for allegedly raping a teenage girl.

Reports indicate that the accused rapist man was among a group of men who raped one of two girls who were dancing at the Paulette’s Night Club in Colleyville, Manchester about 1:30 this morning.

It’s reported that the girls, aged 14 and 15, were dragged to the back of the club and assaulted.

The owner of the club was reportedly stabbed while trying to help the girls.
She has also been hospitalised.

The alleged rapist was taken into custody after he was chopped by a patron at the club.

The other men escaped.

Head of the Area Thee Police Assistant Commissioner Derrick Cochrane says the Organised Crime Investigation Division has been called in to probe reports of human trafficking in relation to the incident.

The owner of the nightclub is also facing criminal charges.

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Men Convicted Of Good Samaritans’ Murders
Published: Thursday | June 21, 2012 12 Comments
Barbara Gayle, Justice Coordinator

A jury deliberated for five hours yesterday and convicted the two men who were charged with the murder of a couple dubbed the ‘Good Samaritans’.

The relatives of the deceased, who attended court daily, wept openly when they heard the verdict.

Convicted of the double murder are labourers 24-year-old André Ennis of Havendale, St Andrew, and 24-year-old Passmore Millings, also called Shane Brown, of Gregory Park, St Catherine.

Supreme Court judge Lloyd Hibbert, who presided at the trial in the Home Circuit Court, will sentence them on July 20.

The couple – 23-year-old human-resource officer Jhanel Whyte and her boyfriend 24-year-old student Taiwo McKenzie – were tied up and gagged after they went to Havendale to give medical supplies to an injured man on November 7, 2007.

They were later taken to bushes in Mount Salus, near Smokey Vale, St Andrew, where their throats were slashed. The bodies were discovered on November 9, 2007.

The Crown, represented by Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn and prosecutors Claudette Thompson and Kerri Ann Kemble, led evidence that on November 6, 2007, McKenzie’s motor car collided with a motorcycle on which Ennis and George Cooper were travelling.

KIDNAPPED

Cooper’s ankle was injured and the next day when the couple took medical supplies to Cooper in Havendale, they were kidnapped.

Cooper, who is now serving an eight-year prison sentence for conspiracy to kidnap and conspiracy to rob the couple, was the main witness for the prosecution. He pleaded guilty last year to the charges.

Cooper said after the accident, the police said the motorcycle was not registered and McKenzie said he was not going to pay for the repairs.

Cooper said when the couple came to give him the medical supplies, Ennis took the key from McKenzie’s motor car and, along with Millings and another man, tied the couple’s hands and gagged them.

He said Ennis drove McKenzie’s motor car up to the hill. Ennis and Millings took the couple into the bushes and later returned with a knife which had blood on it. He said the men also had blood on their hands.

Ennis, who is the brother of well-known entertainer Elephant Man, and Millings gave unsworn statements denying they murdered the couple.

Attorney-at-law C.J. Mitchell is representing Ennis, while attorneys-at-law Tom Tavares-Finson and Christian Tavares-Finson are representing Millings.

An elite politician in Mwavumbo, Mariakani area was yesterday attacked by a prostitute he had refused to pay last month after sex with her. The prostitute claimed that they had negotiated the fee but he ran away before she could reach him.

In a dramatic incident, the politician who is known to frequent the petite girls’ base went there and requested for services from one of the girls. As the politician approached the hotel room, another prostitute who had been a victim of his wits saw him.

The politician however went along with his business and when they finished their illicit affair, he walked out of the hotel room and was greeted by a prostitute holding human waste. The woman hit him with the human waste and decorated his stunning expensive suit with it.

“ulikuwa unadhani utapotea huh! Pesa zangu zi wapi uliniwacha bila malipo, mwanaume wa wapi wewe?” (You thought you will run away, where is my money, you ran away without paying what kind of a man are you?)

Ashamed by his newly acquired state, the politician paid the prostitute all the money he had and ran to his waiting car.