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Man freed of carnal knowledge charge

Mar 20, 2014 News

Windsale Walcott, the Queenstown mason, who was accused by the police of raping an Anna Regina Secondary School student several years ago, was freed of the carnal knowledge charge initially instituted against him.
The matter came to a close on Wednesday, at the Suddie High Court, after the jury returned a unanimous verdict.
Walcott was overwhelmed with emotion after Justice Nareshwar Harnanan told him that he was free to go.
The then 15-year-old Queenstown student said that Walcott raped her after forcefully luring her to the Anna Regina Community Centre ground.
The student said that she was attending extra lessons at Cotton Field, on the Essequibo Coast that day but asked to be excused since she had indicated to her teacher that she was feeling un-well.
As the teenager was walking to the Anna Regina car park, Walcott, according to the court rode up on a bicycle alongside her and lured her to the Anna Regina Community Center ground.
The teenager told police that after being raped, she went and sat in front of the Anna Regina Police Station, until her parents found her and questioned her.
The teenager subsequently informed her parents about the allegation leveled against Walcott and a report was formally lodged at the station.
Walcott was charged after a medical examination was performed on the teenager by a doctor at the Suddie Public Hospital.
During the trial, which commenced on March 6, 2014, at the Suddie High Court, Walcott denied the accusation leveled against him by indicating that on the day in question, he was at work.
He was represented by Counsel James Bond.

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