Forty-one-year-old boatman, Vickram Persaud was yesterday sentenced to 20 years behind bars for the 2009 rape of a young woman whom he took to a location other than where she had paid him to be taken.
Earlier this month a jury had convicted the boat captain of sexually penetrating the woman without her consent, but his sentencing had been deferred for a probation report and victim impact statement.
At the hearing yesterday afternoon, the court heard of the effect the assault continues to have on the complainant who, through her court-support officer, spoke of constantly being plagued by depression.
