After facing a retrial, interdicted police officer, Wayde Padmore, was yesterday afternoon convicted on one of three sex assault charges—when a jury found him guilty of engaging in sexual activity with a young girl who was fourteen years old at the time.
Padmore shook his head in apparent disbelief after hearing the forewoman announce that he had been found unanimously guilty on the sexual activity charge; but that the panel was deadlocked as to whether he had raped the child; while going on to further unanimously acquit him of causing her to watch him perform a sex act.
The 12-member mixed panel returned with its verdicts following hours of deliberations. It was hung evenly regarding the rape charge levelled against Padmore who appeared visibly distressed after the announcements were made.