Questions are being asked as to how a Guyanese who was facing a rape charge in Guyana was able to sneak past authorities and travel all the way to Belfast, Northern Ireland where he committed similar offences and was last Friday sentenced to 18 years.
Sources yesterday argued that 25-year-old Ryan Subryan, who was 21 when he was slapped with rape and robbery charges and was placed on $75,000, should have had his passport seized when he was granted bail.
Questions have also been raised as to whether a warrant had been issued for his arrest here when he did not show up for his court case and whether the police had tried to ascertain where he had fled.
Stabroek News understands that the man left Guyana illegally and he was an illegal immigrant in Northern Ireland.
On June 28 of 2008 Subryan forced a Polish woman into his car and held her against her will as she walked home from a city centre bar.
She was held in the car against her will for about 20 minutes but she managed to escape and ran into a nearby alleyway where she rang her boyfriend.
Subryan met his next victim while she was in the Skye nightclub with her friend.
The woman later realised that she had lost her phone and Subryan offered to help her to look for it and he rang the number then told the woman a “bogus story” about someone at another club having her mobile phone.
He then offered to drive her to the other venue to retrieve the phone but instead drove to the docklands where he indecently assaulted her and tried to have sex with her in the early hours of June 30.
The prosecutor said that Subryan “threatened that if she didn’t have sex, he would put a gun to her head and shoot her.”
The report said that she got out of the car in a “distressed state” and the alarm was raised when she met a couple coming from the Odyssey Arena, one of whom heard her say “he tried to rape me.”
About 30 minutes later, a woman was walking home from a birthday party when a man approached her in the Albert Bridge area and told her she was beautiful.
She was subsequently knocked out on the street and when she came round, she realised she had been raped.
Subryan was linked to the rape by DNA evidence.
In 2005 he allegedly raped and robbed a young woman here.
