A woman who admitted to attempting to extort $10 million from her boyfriend by threatening to tell the police that he raped her, yesterday changed her plea.
Princess Williams, 19, of Lot 3127 Block 3, Providence, East Bank Demerara, yesterday appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Courts where Senior Magistrate Leron Daly granted her $100,000 bail after she changed her guilty plea to not guilty.
The charge against her states that between January 4 and January 6, at Georgetown, with intent to extort money from Kenrick Thomas, that is to say $10,000,000, she threatened to accuse him of attempting to rape her.
She pleaded guilty to the extortion charge at her last appearance and was remanded. Senior Magistrate Daly had requested that a probation report be presented to the court at the next hearing when Williams was supposed to be sentenced. However, at yesterday’s appearance, she was represented by attorney-at-law Narissa Leander when she requested to change her plea. She is expected to return to court on April 1.
According to the facts presented to the court by the police prosecutor, Thomas and Williams were involved in a sexual relationship that ended on January 4. The court previously heard that the two met at the man’s home on the date mentioned and Thomas asked to engage in sexual intercourse which Williams consented to. Afterward an argument ensued between the two and the relationship ended. The man later received an audio message from the woman where she accused him of raping her. She also told him that if he paid $10 million, she would not report the information to the police.
