Serial rapist gets 21-year sentence
Published:Monday | January 16, 2023 | 12:59 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter
A serial rapist who, over a three-day period, sexually assaulted four women, including two sisters while their mother watched helplessly, was last week sentenced to 21 years in prison under a plea deal.
The 35-year-old sex offender, Everton Bennett, who was sentenced on Thursday by Justice Judith Pusey in the Home Circuit Court, is to serve 15 years in prison before parole consideration.
Bennett, otherwise called ‘Guns’ of Ewarton, St Catherine, had pleaded guilty to several charges on a 17-count indictment on November 15 last year.
He admitted guilt to five counts of robbery with aggravation, three counts of illegal possession of a firearm, five counts of forcible abduction, and four counts of rape.
According to the facts on the Crown’s case, Bennett and other men, who have not yet been captured, abducted several women between February 8 and 10, 2021.
Bennett and his cronies, who were armed with handguns, used a silver Toyota Axio to prey on the victims in the Bog Walk, Point Hill, and Spanish Town areas of St Catherine.
In the case involving the sisters, on a date in February 2021, the woman and her children were on their way home from church after 9 p.m., when they were held up and ordered into the car at gunpoint.
The men then robbed the women of cash and cellular phones before driving into bushes, where they took turns raping the daughters.
The mother was forced to watch powerlessly from inside the car.
A student and a security guard were also abducted by Bennett and his accomplices and raped in separate incidents.
The police made a breakthrough in the investigation after one of the victims memorised the registration plate of the vehicle, which led to Bennett’s capture.
DNA samples collected from the convict matched those obtained from the victims.
Attorney-at-law Alexander Shaw represented Bennett.