April 30, 2021

No Bail For Man Charged With Raping 85 Year Old Woman

By Newsroom

Denzil De La Rosa, 26, was denied bail when he appeared in court, charged with raping an 85 year old woman.

The charges stemmed from an incident that allegedly occurred around 3 am on last week Saturday.

An elderly woman was at her residence in Marabella, when she was awoken by a crashing noise. She saw a man standing by her bed. The intruder allegedly sexually assaulted her after which he began to ransack the bedroom. When the woman tried to escape, the intruder allegedly choked her and took her back into the bedroom.

However, when the intruder went into another room of the house, the 85-year-old was able to run out the back door of the residence to her neighbour’s home. The police and Emergency Health Services (EHS) were then contacted. The woman was taken to the San Fernando General Hospital by EHS personnel.

Police continued enquiries and arrested De la Rosa on Monday. He was positively identified by the victim during an identification parade on Wednesday and  was subsequently charged for the offences of rape and buggery, burglary, and robbery with violence by investigator PC Matloo. He was charged for interfering with a motor vehicle which occurred along the same street at the same time as the incident.

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