Two men found guilty of serious crimes were sentenced to prison time last week in High Court.
Andre Penn, the former legislator convicted of sex crimes last month, received a 12-year prison sentence.
Justice Indra Hariprashad-Charles sentenced Mr. Penn Thursday to eight years in prison for each of two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl of or under 13; 18 months for each of seven counts of indecent assault; and two and a half years for each of three counts of buggery.
Within each set of charges, each sentence will run concurrently, but the sets of sentences will run consecutively, she said. Mr. Penn was alleged to have committed the acts against a young relative of his wife in his Road Town office and Josiahs Bay home between 2006 and 2008, prosecutors said.
Today, Ms. Hariprashad-Charles also sentenced Vernon Paddy, a Guyanese man who brutally attacked his wife with a 14-inch hammer, to eight years in prison. He will spend an additional year if he doesn’t pay $5,161.68 in compensation to her within six months, she ruled.
Mr. Paddy assaulted his wife with the hammer on May 25, 2010, because the couple had a fight about the nature of her relationship with another man, Crown Counsel Jude Hanley said in March.
See the April 7, 2011 edition for full coverage.