A man charged for a beastly act of rape and wounding, was acquitted today. That’s after his alleged victim - a 50 year old woman - told the court that she does not wish to continue with the case for personal reasons although the defendant did what he did. She said that she will leave it up to God. She stressed to the trial judge, Justice Adolph Lucas, that she did it on her own free will and was not forced by anyone to come to court and say what she said.

The incident allegedly occurred on April 4, 2015. The complainant, who was 48 years old at the time, gave a statement to the police claiming that she went to Davis's house and when she wanted to leave, he refused to let her go. She said Davis punched her and kicked her and lashed her with a machete, then he raped her. She said she was held captive for about 6 hours and she managed to get away by breaking a window in the room with a machete and shouting for help. When the police arrived at the house, they found the woman naked and bleeding. Davis was charged with rape and wounding.

But today, with no testimony from the complainant, Davis' attorney, Leeroy Banner, made a submission that his client has no case to answer, because no evidence was put forward. Justice Lucas then directed the jury to return a verdict of not guilty and Davis was free to go.