Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter
A MAN WHO has been described by the police as a serial rapist has been sentenced to 23 years imprisonment at hard labour, after he pleaded guilty to six counts of rape, two counts of abduction, two counts of robbery with aggravation and two counts of simple larceny.
He is Hector Colley, 29, shopkeeper, of 27 Fifth Street, Trench Town, Kingston 12.
The facts of the case, as outlined in the Home Circuit Court by Crown Counsel Diahann Gordon-Harrison, are that on several dates in July 2003, Colley raped six young women, five of whom were teenagers and one, 21 years old.
He was armed with a knife at the time he committed the offences.
Colley lured the young women to various locations in Kingston after telling them that he wanted them to help him to take items to his mother who sells in the arcade, downtown Kingston. Two of the complainants were sisters.
Reports were made to the police and investigations by Corporal Michael Fraser and Corporal K. Roache led to Colley's arrest.
ILLEGAL POSSESSION
Colley was picked up by the police on Water Lane, downtown Kingston while he was having conversation with a young woman. He was placed on an identification parade where he was pointed out by the young women.
He was sentenced in February this year to 10 years imprisonment for rape and illegal possession of firearm. He lived with his common-law wife and he is the father of five children, three of whom are girls.
Miss Justice Norma McIntosh in passing sentence ordered that the 10-year prison sentence must run consecutive to the 23-year prison sentence so Colley will serve a total of 33 years. The judge recommended psychiatric treatment for Colley.
Colley was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment each at hard labour on the rape charges, seven years imprisonment for robbery with aggravation and three years imprisonment each for the charges of abduction and simple larceny.
The judge said the sentences with the exception of those for abduction must run concurrently.
The three-year-prison sentence for abduction is to run consecutive to the 20-year-prison sentence for rape so Colley will serve a total of 23 years for the offences to which he pleaded guilty last week.
