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Accused of Another Rape, Man Goes Back To Jail
posted (December 31, 2014)

He was only just cleared of a rape charge 9 months ago, but tonight, 45 year-old Vanzie Lamb, a labourer of 26 Barracat Street, is back in jail, after he was accused of raping another woman.

It happened on Boxing Day, December 26. According to the 22 year-old victim, she was walking on Antelope Street Extension at around 12:30 a.m. She encountered a man in front of an office building and he grabbed her by the hair. He then forced her at knife point onto his bicycle and took her to an abandoned house in a secluded area where he raped her. Police investigated led to Lamb and he was charged with rape.

When he was arraigned today, Vanzie Lamb told the court that the woman is his friend and that the sex was consensual. Nevertheless, the prosecutor objected to bail on the grounds that Lamb is no stranger to the criminal courts and that he has been charged with rape before. Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer upheld the objection and remanded Lamb to the Belize Central Prison until February 23.

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