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The man who raped a 69-year-old woman last year was found guilty by a jury in the St Catherine Circuit Court on Tuesday.

He is Sylvester ‘Sill’ Coke a 34-year-old labourer of Bog Walk, St Catherine.

Coke was found guilty after the jury retired for over an hour and returned a unanimous decision.

The Crown had led evidence that on April 5, last year, at 4 a.m., the complainant, who lived alone, was at home when she reportedly went outside to use her toilet. When she returned to her house, the accused was inside and attacked her. He held her down on the bed and sexually assaulted her and forced her to perform oral sex on him.

After her ordeal, the senior citizen made a report to the Bog Walk police in St Catherine, and an investigation was launched.

Coke was held later that morning and was charged with rape and indecent assault by Detective Sergeant Leroy Guy.

He is scheduled to be sentenced on May 26.
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The court is now attempting to find out if a man who has been accused of sleeping with another man, and then running away with several items, including his clothes, is in fact guilty.

The accused man appeared in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday and is set to return on July 29.

When the case was called up the alleged thief who is of a Kitson Town address in St Catherine was granted $80,000 bail.

When the details of the case was revealed in court there was an outburst of laughter causing the police to shout ”order, order inside the court.”

The court was told by the complainant that after he slept with the accused at a motel along the Portmore ‘Back Road’ he got up about 4 a.m. and found all his clothing gone.

He told the court that he also noticed that his cellphone valued at $3,000, a wallet with $6,000 along with the keys to his Honda Integra motor car were missing.

It was revealed that he had to wrap himself in a white sheet and went to make a report to the Bridgeport Police Station.

An investigation was launched and the accused was allegedly caught by the police with the vehicle, a small quantity of ganja and a ratchet knife in his possession.

He was subsequently charged with possession of ganja, being armed with an offensive weapon, simple larceny and driving away a motor vehicle without the owner’s consent.

He pleaded guilty to the ganja and knife charges and not guilty to the larceny offences.

An attorney who appeared on behalf of the complainant secured the release of the car to his client.

Pakistan warns against further raids inside its territory

U.S. seeks answers over Bin Laden

Wed, May 4 2011

(Reuters) – Pakistan, in apparent reference to old rival India, said on Thursday any country that tried to raid its territory in the way U.S. forces did to kill Osama bin Laden would face consequences from its military.

Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir dismissed any suggestion the Pakistanimilitary or its main spy agency had been involved with al Qaeda, while issuing a blunt warning against any further intrusions.

“We feel that that sort of misadventure or miscalculation would result in a terrible catastrophe,” he said. “There should be no doubt Pakistan has adequate capacity to ensure its own defense.”

U.S. special forces launched the Monday morning raid without the knowledge of Pakistan officials, with helicopter-borne soldiers attacking a compound in Abbottabad, north of the capital, killing bin Laden and several others.

Pakistan has been under international pressure to explain why the al Qaeda chief was able to hide in a compound in a hill town near its capital.

The military has been criticized over the perceived violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty. Bashir’s comments, while apparently directed at India, also seemed aimed at reassuring the public the military was capable of defending the country.

While few in Pakistan supported bin Laden and his ideology, violations of sovereignty can provoke street protests and media outrage.

The fact that bin Laden was found hiding in a garrison town, near Pakistan’s main military academy, has led to speculation the country’s main Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) security agency was in cahoots with him.

Bashir reacted that.

“The critique of the ISI is not only unwarranted, it can not be validated,” he said.

He also echoed comments from Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, who said on Wednesday the world shared in the failure to find bin Laden.

“If it was an intelligence failure … then it was a global intelligence failure,” Bashir said.

“That the ISI is incompetent is a value judgment,” he added. “And we believe that this is not the time for anybody to indulge in the luxury of passing value judgments.”

(Additional reporting by Saeed Azhar; Writing by Chris Allbritton; Editing by Robert Birsel)

IAN Thomas, the co-accused of convicted Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton, was yesterday sentenced to 51 months’ imprisonment in a federal court in Tampa, Florida.

The sentence was more than the 18 months that Thomas had requested in court documents last week for co-operating with the prosecution against Banton.

“Mr Thomas requests that the court deem a sentence of 18 months more than reasonable in this case,” according to the papers filed in the Sam M Gibbons Federal Court last Friday.

Yesterday’s sentence follows Banton’s conviction in the said court in February on charges of conspiracy to distribute five or more kilogrammes of cocaine, possession of a firearm in the furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and using the wires to facilitate a drug-trafficking offence.

The Grammy award-winning artiste was acquitted of a fourth charge of attempted possession with the intent to distribute cocaine.

Banton, whose real name is Mark Myrie, is to be sentenced on June 23. He faces upwards of 15 years in prison.

Thomas, who is a long-time friend of Banton, was arrested in an undercover operation in a warehouse in Florida along with a man by the name of James Mack in December 2009. Banton was arrested hours later at his south Florida home. Both Thomas and Mack pleaded guilty on the charges against them. They were scheduled to give evidence in Banton’s trial but were not called.

Although Thomas did not give evidence in court, his briefing, according to the court document filed last Friday, has tremendously benefited the prosecution. Thomas said in the filing that he did not stand to benefit from any sale of cocaine and that his only function was to seek a buyer for the cocaine that the Government’s confidential source had presented.

“After consideration of the factors enumerated… this court should find that a sentence below the advisory guideline range is sufficient but not greater than the necessary to achieve the purposes of sentencing,” said the document.