Jason Yarris was on Monday sentenced to two years in prison on two separate charges of sexual assault.
Yarris, of Bent Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, was sentenced by Senior Magistrate Leron Daly in a Georgetown court.
He pleaded guilty to a charge that on December 7, 2020, while at Water Street, he sexually assaulted a city policewoman by grabbing one of her breasts.
The facts stated that the victim was on duty when Yarris walked up to her and grabbed her before walking away. The matter was reported and Yarris was arrested.
Yarris was further found guilty of a similar offence committed in September. The charge stated that on September 24, 2020, while in the vicinity of Benn Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, Yarris sexually assaulted a postwoman by touching her buttocks without her consent.
He is also accused of attempting to grab the postwoman’s breasts. The court prosecutor’s case was that the woman was delivering mail at Bent and John streets, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown. However, after she entered Yarris’s premises, he approached her from behind and pulled her bicycle.
The woman pulled her bicycle back from Yarris, after which he grabbed her buttocks and walked away. As the woman continued delivering her mail, Yarris, while standing at the entrance, stretched out his hands in an attempt to grab her breasts as she was leaving his yard. The woman, who became afraid, began shouting and this caused neighbours to go to her rescue. The assault was reported to the police and Yarris was arrested.
He was sentenced to two years in prison for the offences.
