Farmer ‘Brown Chop’ charged with rape

A 31-year-old Kingston farmer whose name is Jamar Belnavis, otherwise called 'Brown Chop', is to appear in the St Mary Parish Court on Thursday for the rape of a woman in her home in 2023.

He is charged with possession of prohibited weapon, assault at common law, using a firearm to commit a schedule offence and rape.

Reports from the Port Maria Police are that sometime in 2023 a woman was at home in Carron Hall district, St Mary, when Belnavis entered through a window.

He then pointed a firearm at the woman, pushed her on a bed and sexually assaulted her before fleeing the scene.

A report was made to the police, and he was taken into custody on Monday, March 10.

The charges were subsequently laid against him after a question-and-answer session in the presence of his attorney.

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