After a brief deliberation, the Court of Appeal yesterday reduced the two-year sentence imposed on Teneisha Evans, the girlfriend of alleged police rape victim Colwyn Harding, to six months.
Evans, now 19, will be released from the New Amsterdam Prison on June 3, after completing her truncated sentence for simple larceny, to which she had pleaded guilty.
On December 3 last at the Providence Magi-strate’s Court, the then 18-year-old Evans admitted to stealing and selling the property of a relative in order to raise bail for Harding. Harding, who was charged with assaulting a Peace Officer and disorderly behaviour, has since accused the said policeman of ramming a condom covered baton up his anus and brutalising him at the Timehri Police Station.
Melissa Ifill, a member of the Colwyn Harding Support Group which was formed to assist Harding as well as all of the persons who were arrested with Harding on November 18 last and allegedly brutalised by the police, said that Evans is elated at the reduction of her sentence. She said that Evans’ attorney Nigel Hughes did not appeal her