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Life sentence for Berbice man who raped 13-year-old
Jailed for life: Mohamed Khan
Fifty-year-old Mohamed Khan who was found guilty of rape committed in 2014, on a child under the age of sixteen, was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment at the Berbice High Court by Justice Priya Sewnarine Beharry. The victim was 13 years old at the time of the incident.
Khan was accused of committing the act on September 29, 2014 in the Upper Corentyne area.
He was sentenced after a probation report was not requested. The judge stated that she took into consideration the physical and psychological trauma that the teen would have endured after the incident, and this shaped her decision on the sentence.
Khan would be eligible for parole after serving thirty-five years’ imprisonment. Attorneys Suriya Sabsook and Arud Goosai represented him.
Upon Khan’s exit from the courtroom, he told reporters present that, “I don’t know nothing about what they charge me for” and that the reporters should “do something about it”.
The trial for Khan came to an abrupt halt in 2016 when one of the jurors was seen entering the same car with him. That information was filtered to the then Judge, Justice Brassington Reynolds and an inquiry was conducted. Upon conclusion of the inquiry, a decision was made to abort the case.
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