Travis Evans, 25, was yesterday morning sentenced to three years behind bars for robbing a woman at knife point of more than half a million dollars a decade ago.
When he appeared before Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall last December, Evans, known as ‘Short Boss,’ pleaded guilty to robbing the woman of $650,000 and he had also admitted to raping her.
His sentencing had been deferred for a probation report.
While he accepted his role in the robbery, however, Evans indicated to the probation officer that he had only pleaded guilty to the rape charge because he felt pressured to do so.
The man was unrepresented by counsel at his initial hearing, but was represented by attorney Stacy Sanford yesterday.
Given the revelation in the report, Justice Morris-Ramlall only sentenced Evans for the robbery. Meanwhile, he will face a trial for the rape charge levelled against him.
Evans committed the robbery on October 30th, 2010, in the county of Demerara.
The offender, of ‘C’ Field, Sophia, Greater Georgetown, was charged jointly with two men, for whom arrest warrants were issued.
Evans was one of three prisoners who escaped from the Lusignan Prison in October 2018. He was at that time on remand for the murders of Timehri youth Ronsley Clarke and Kuru Kururu legal clerk Gregory Frank.
