Leroy Smith, of Richmond Housing Scheme was remanded on Tuesday by Magistrate Dellon Best until July 21, after police charged him with rape. The matter was called in camera, at the Anna Regina Magistrate’s Court.Smith is accused by the police of raping a Richmond Housing Scheme woman. The woman claimed that she was raped on three separate occasions by the said man.According to information, the woman who lives in the same street with Smith told the police that early Tuesday morning Smith entered her home and raped her.The police, who escorted the woman to the Suddie Public Hospital for a medical certificate, are maintaining that on the first report of rape by the woman, Smith was arrested and placed on $50,000 station bail.To prove their case, police proceeded to pursue advice from the Director of Public Prosecution, compounded with added leads which they claim have led to the arrest and charge of Smith on Tuesday.Meanwhile, Smith’s wife, Coleen Smith, is maintaining that her husband is innocent. The mother of three and close neighbours, are insisting that Smith was wrongly implicated for the alleged rape of the woman,Soccer Jerseys Outlet, since he only returned home from the interior, almost a week ago.Smith further claimed that the police failed to take statements from her and close neighbours, and have nothing substantial to work with in pursuing a rape charge against her husband.Smith is said to be a Muslim. (Yannason Duncan)
