Derek Achong

Se­nior Re­porter

derek.achong@guardian.co.tt

A man has been sen­tenced to a lit­tle over three years in prison af­ter ad­mit­ting to sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ing a woman dur­ing a home in­va­sion in 2017.

Er­ic Car­ring­ton plead­ed guilty to griev­ous sex­u­al as­sault in June but was on­ly re­cent­ly sen­tenced by High Court Judge Gail Gon­za­les.

Car­ring­ton was ac­cused of at­tack­ing the vic­tim on Sep­tem­ber 22, 2017.

She was sleep­ing at her boyfriend’s apart­ment in Clax­ton Bay when Car­ring­ton, who was armed with a knife, en­tered.

He took a small quan­ti­ty of cash that was on the kitchen counter and at­tempt­ed to rob the vic­tim, who did not have any cash or valu­ables on her.

He then sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ed her be­fore leav­ing.

She made a re­port to the po­lice and Car­ring­ton was ar­rest­ed hours lat­er.

He was charged af­ter the vic­tim point­ed him out in an iden­ti­fi­ca­tion pa­rade.

In de­cid­ing that Car­ring­ton should serve three years, three months and 15 days be­fore he could be re­leased, Jus­tice Gon­za­les gave him cred­it for the time he spent in prison af­ter plead­ing guilty and be­fore be­ing sen­tenced.

He was al­so or­dered to reg­is­ter as a sex of­fend­er up­on his re­lease and re­port to the po­lice every three months for ten years.

The Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice was di­rect­ed to pub­lish Car­ring­ton’s name and de­tails of his con­vic­tion on the pub­lic sex of­fend­ers’ web­site.

Car­ring­ton was rep­re­sent­ed by Michelle Ali, of the Pub­lic De­fend­ers De­part­ment (PDD).

The Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) was rep­re­sent­ed by Kern Young.