Thirty-year-old vendor Francis Gonzalves has been sentenced to 18 years behind bars for raping a woman back in 2018.
A jury on Tuesday found Gonzalves guilty in a proportion of 10-2 of sexually penetrating the woman without her consent, on March 27th, 2018.
In handing down the sentence yesterday morning, Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry who presided over the trial, said that the Court had considered both the physical and psychological trauma the victim has had to endure.
