A man accused of raping a Linden woman was remanded to prison until the 16th September, 2009 when he appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court in Linden.
Mark Cyrus, 36, was not required to plead to the charge. The accused allegedly committed the offence on the woman at her Amelia’s Ward home on 28th July, 2009 after he allegedly broke and entered her house. It was alleged that he placed a cutlass at her neck before ordering her to take off her clothes and raping her.
Cyrus was discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was nursing a gunshot wound to his upper right thigh. He had allegedly attacked uniformed ranks in an arrest bid while at his Amelia’s Ward dwelling.
Cyrus pleaded with the magistrate for bail saying that he was in extreme pain. The police prosecutor objected to the bail request on the ground that he had resisted arrest, had attacked a police officer with a dangerous weapon and he was likely to flee the jurisdiction.
The virtual complainant queried why no charges of break-and-enter, simple larceny, resisting police arrest and attempting to wound a police officer were instituted against the man. She was told that the other charges would be made out against him on a subsequent date.
Bail was denied and he is to return to court on 16th September, 2009.
