Providence woman tried to extort $10M from ex on rape accusation
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A woman has pleaded guilty to attempting to extort $10 million from her boyfriend by threatening to tell the police that he raped her.
Princess Williams, 19, of Lot 3127 Block 3 Providence, East Bank Demerara, yesterday appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts where Senior Magistrate Leron Daly read the charge to her.
The charge against her states that between January 4th and January 6th, at Georgetown, with intent to extort money from Kenrick Thomas, that is to say $10,000,000, she threatened to accuse him of attempting to rape her.
She pleaded guilty to the extortion charge and was remanded until March 5th. The magistrate requested that a probation report is presented to the court at the next hearing when Williams will be sentenced.
According to the facts presented to the court by the police prosecutor, Thomas and Williams were involved in a sexual relationship that ended on January 4.
The court heard that the two met at the man’s home on the date mentioned and Thomas asked to engage in sexual intercourse which Williams consented to. Afterward an argument ensued between the two and the relationship ended. The man later received an audio message from the woman where she accused him of raping her. She also told him that if he paid $10,000,000, she would not report the information to the police.
A city Magistrate on Thursday ruled that the two counts of misconduct in public office laid against Deputy Chief Election Officer (DCEO) Roxanne Myers are to remain indictable.
Myers appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts where Senior Magistrate Leron Daly upheld a submission made by Myers’ attorney, Nigel Hughes.
Hughes had made a submission for the charges to remain indictable. The matter will continue on March 9.
The decision by the magistrate orders for a Preliminary Inquiry (PI) be conducted to determine whether there is enough evidence for Myers to stand trial at the High Court.
After the Magistrate upheld the submission, attorney Ganesh Hira told the court that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) will be appealing the ruling of the magistrate. He then asked for the matter to be called again in March, when an update will be provided to the court.
Myers made her first appearance at the court in relation to the two charges on October 9th and was released on $300,000 bail. She was arrested on October 6th, after she turned herself into the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) headquarters, accompanied by her attorneys.
This newspaper had reported that Police spokesman, Assistant Commissioner Royston Andries-Junor, in a statement,
said that Myers’ arrest came after several efforts made by investigators to locate her proved futile. The police also said that a wanted bulletin was being prepared to be issued by the Guyana Police Force for Myers, but she surrendered before it was sent out.
In August, the police announced that they had launched an investigation into the elections and the events that occurred during the ensuing five months. Since then, a number of individuals including APNU+AFC agent Volda Lawrence, and several GECOM officials, including Chief Election Officer, Keith Lowenfield; District Four Returning Officer, Clairmont Mingo; Sheffern February, a clerk employed with GECOM; and Enrique Livan, a GECOM Information Technology officer, have been charged.
(Reuters) - India vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane hopes they can level the four-test series against England by flexing their spin muscles in the second match beginning today on a more spin-friendly track at Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium.
England triumphed by 227 runs at the same venue earlier this week with skipper Joe Root producing a spin masterclass with a double hundred.
Root and his team mates employed the sweep shot — both traditional and reverse — to negate turn with only off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin managing to trouble them occasionally.
Rahane told reporters yesterday that the new track chosen for the second test looked more to their liking.
“It looks completely different. I’m sure it will turn from day one, but again we’ll have to wait and see how it plays in the first session,” he said.
“We have to forget what happened in the first test and focus on this, and play good cricket.
“We know these conditions really well. We have to put our best foot forward tomorrow and play as a team.”
Against an India lineup known for their proficiency with spin, England off-spinner
Dom Bess claimed 4-76 in the first innings while left-arm spinner Jack Leach returned the same figures in the second.
Rahane said they cannot not just blindly copy England’s template to try to dominate the spinners in the second match.
“England came up with some plans playing sweep and reverse sweep, but it’s not necessary that we are going to play similar shots,” the middle-order batsman explained.
“It’s all about what they bowl and how we attack their line and length and play our game.”
Fit-again spinner Axar Patel is likely to make his test debut on Saturday, while India could also be tempted to play leftarm spinner Kuldeep Yadav, ahead of allrounder Washington Sundar.
Rahane said they had faith in their spin attack, led by veteran Ashwin.
“If you see their second innings, all our spinners, especially Ashwin, bowled really well,” Rahane said of the opening test.
“In India, if the ball is turning, oppositions are under pressure. We are not too concerned how our spinners are bowling.
“I’m sure they’ll come up with a plan tomorrow and bowl really well.”