Taxi-driver, Thurston Semple, who is accused of raping and battering a Venezuelan woman, was today committed to stand trial in the high court for the offence.
Semple after being a month on bail was today committed to stand a high court trial following a paper committal after he appeared Magistrate, Faith McGusty.
Semple was also granted bail in the sum of $250,000, pending his high court trial.
He is accused of raping a woman between February 24 and February 25, 2021, at Georgetown, by engaging in sexual intercourse with the victim, without her consent.
Reports are that during that period in question, the victim was raped, sodomized, and beaten by Semple at his home after they left a nightclub located at the corner of Robb and Cummings Streets, Georgetown.
According to the woman, Semple became abusive towards the victim after she refused to perform oral sex on him.
It is alleged that Semple picked up a knife and placed it to the victim’s neck and demanded her to do it. He also dealt her several cuffs about her body.
In fear for her life, the woman later performed the sex act and after Semple went into the kitchen area, she escaped through a window and raised an alarm.
She was then followed and beaten some more, as the woman continued to try to escape.
Sometime later, the neighbors alerted the police and the victim was rescued by the ranks.
Simply later claimed in his report that he knows nothing of such a crime committed.
