Accused serial rapist Leroy Gomez, 23, who was convicted of rape, robbery and aggravated assault earlier this year that was part of a series of attacks of which he was accused in 2008, was freed on a charge from another incident of robbery and rape before Justice Adolph Lucas in the Supreme Court this morning.
Prosecutor Senior Crown Counsel Yohhanseh Cave was forced to enter a nolle prosequi in the case because the female complainant, aged 26, is deceased.
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions will now decide whether to bring back the charges against Gomez and attempt to incorporate the dead woman’s statement into evidence under new provisions in the law, recently passed.
Gomez was accused of accosting the woman at the corner of Iguana and Pelican Streets on September 16, 2008, stealing her money and cellular phones and then taking her to a basketball court on Pelican Streets and forcing sex with her.
Gomez had previously had another rape charge from the same string of incidents dropped, but was convicted in August of rape, robbery and aggravated assault for the first in the string of attacks, reported on August 23, 2008. He is currently serving 20 years in prison, having been sentenced to 9 years on the rape charge, eleven on the robbery of the two women he attacked, and a concurrent sentence of two years for the aggravated assault.