Renato Renaldo Harris has been jailed for 16-and-a-half years for two counts of rape, during which he sexually assaulted the victim while she was in a drunken state and, a second time, a few hours later when she awoke.
Justice Marlene Carter handed down the prison sentence against the former DJ earlier on Wednesday, 15 Feb., for the rapes which took place in July 2018.
Harris, 40, was initially tried by Carter in a judge-alone hearing in Sept. 2022 with guilty verdicts returned three months later.
The incidents occurred following a night out in 2018 when the victim crossed paths with Harris at a bar on West Bay Road.
During the trial, the woman said she accepted an invitation into Harris’ Prospect home but did not remember anything else, apart from waking up in his bed naked the following morning, when Harris sexually assaulted her a second time despite her cries and screams for him to stop.
Harris conceded that the intercourse did happen on both occasions, but claimed it was consensual. He maintained that he was the victim and that the allegations arose because he refused to pay the defendant who was seeking to extort him.
He was taken into custody following the sentencing on Wednesday.
Justice Carter has ordered that time already spent in custody be deducted from his sentence.
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