Tonight, Prison Inmate Carl Parham remains in prison serving an additional 5 years after he was convicted of burglary today in Magistrate's Court.
Parham stood trial before Magistrate Dale Cayetano, where the prosecution called 2 police officers and the woman whose house he broke into. They all testified that the victim was asleep in her Mahogany Heights home on March 18, 2012. The woman heard something, and when she opened her eyes, she found Parham inside her bedroom.
She became alarmed, and managed to force him out of her house, after which she called the police who arrested him shortly after. They charged him with burglary even though he didn't manage to steal anything, because police believe that if he had the opportunity, his intention for the break-in was to rape the woman.
Parham chose to remain silent in his defence, and after hearing the trial to completion, Magistrate Cayetano found him guilty. He sentenced Parham to serve an additional 5 years in prison, which is to run concurrent to a 7-year sentence he was serving for attempted burglary, for which he was recently convicted. As a result, this additional sentence does not affect his total prison time; he will only spend 7 years in prison.
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