Anns Grove mason, Melroy Barry, who was convicted earlier this month of raping a 15-year-old girl, has been sentenced to 17 years in jail for the crime.
The sentence was handed down on Tuesday by Justice Jo-Ann Barlow before whom the trial was conducted at the Sexual Offences Court of the High Court in Demerara.
Barry had been charged jointly for the offence with co-accused Calvin Reid.
While the jury found Barry guilty as charged of committing the offence, it was divided regarding Reid, who now faces a retrial.
Barry called “Satan” and Reid, called “Callo,” both masons of Anns Grove village, East Coast Demerara, were charged with raping the teen on January 7th, of 2020.
The prosecution’s case against them was that the girl was taken to a house where the two took turns raping her.
A police report was subsequently made and the duo was later arrested and charged.
