The Guyanese man who admitted raping a woman and attacking two others within 48 hours in Belfast, Northern Ireland has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.
A BBC report said that Ryan Subryan, 25, was sentenced yesterday in the Belfast Crown Court by Justice Hart who said that the evidence suggested that the young man remains a serious danger to women. In imposing the sentence the judge also recommended that the defendant be deported back to Guyana upon his release from custody since he was in that country illegally.
Subryan, who allegedly committed a similar offence in Guyana back in 2005 and was placed on $75,000 bail before absconding, committed the attacks in June of 2007.
According to the BBC report Justice Hart said since there were no previous sexual offences on Subryan’s record, he was not imposing a life sentence.
He told the court that he had made the decision “not without some hesitation.”
The court was told that in the first incident, Subryan forced a Polish woman into his car and held her against her will as she walked home from a city centre bar towards the Lisburn Road on June 28, 2007.
He told the woman to get into his car as it was unsafe walking on her own before bundling her into the passenger seat.
While in the vehicle he produced a gun and held it to her head and threatened to kill her.
The BBC reported that she was held in the car against her will for about 20 minutes but she managed to escape and ran into a nearby alleyway where she rang her boyfriend.
Subryan met his next victim while she was in the Skye nightclub with her friend.
The woman later realised that she had lost her phone and Subryan offered to help her to look for it and he rang the number then told the woman a “bogus story” about someone at another club having her mobile phone.
He then offered to drive her to the other venue to retrieve the phone but instead drove to the docklands where he indecently assaulted her and tried to have sex with her in the early hours of June 30.
The prosecutor said that Subryan “threatened that if she didn’t have sex, he would put a gun to her head and shoot her.”
The report said that she got out of the car in a “distressed state” and the alarm was raised when she met a couple coming from the Odyssey Arena, one of whom heard her say “he tried to rape me.”
About 30 minutes later, a woman was walking home from a birthday party when a man approached her in the Albert Bridge area and told her she was beautiful.
She was subsequently knocked out on the street and when she came round, she realised she had been raped.
Subryan was linked to the rape by DNA evidence.
When the father of two was arrested he initially denied all the charges put to him but later pleaded guilty to two counts of threats to kill, kidnapping, assault with intent to rape,, indecent assault, rape and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
Back in 2005 in Guyana Subryan was a 21-year-old taxi driver when he was charged with raping a female passenger before robbing her at gunpoint of a quantity of cash.
Subryan was not required to enter a plea for rape, but entered a not guilty plea for robbery under arms.
He appeared before then acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan who released him on $75,000 bail. Subryan reportedly skipped bail and never returned to court for the matter.
The case against him was that around 2 am on the day of the incident, the complainant, a 22-year-old woman hired Subryan to take her from Sheriff Street to the Stabroek Market area.
When they were in the vicinity of Mandela Avenue, he reportedly began taking another route. About 200 metres off the main road he allegedly stopped the car and raped the woman.
After committing the unlawful offence he placed a gun to her neck and relieved her of $5,000 and US$250 which she had in her possession.
The matter was subsequently reported to the police and Subryan was pointed out during an identification parade.
