The Tribune

By LAMECH JOHNSON

Tribune Staff Reporter

ljohnson@tribunemedia.net

OSCAR Ingraham will have to wait up to six weeks before he learns his fate for two separate rape convictions in the Supreme Court.

Ingraham appeared before Justice Carolita Bethell yesterday. He is expected to be sentenced for the separate home invasion and sexual assaults of two women. The first attack took place on February 28, 2012 and the second happened between 11pm on May 29 and 5am on May 30, 2012.

However, it was noted that the psychiatric reports requested by the court were not ready and would not be ready for another four to six weeks.

Ingraham insisted that he did not find the report necessary.

“There’s nothing wrong with my head,” he said.

“You might not find it necessary, but I am the one that’s sentencing you. You’re not sentencing yourself,” Justice Bethell replied.

She explained that it would be necessary given the fact that the circumstances surrounding the two incidents were similar. She did, however, state that she would proceed with the sentencing on July 31 if the report was not ready.

Ingraham, according to evidence in the trial concerning the first incident, broke into the home of two foreigners, and robbed both of them of cash, cell phones, travel documents and government issued identification and work permits, valued at $3,325.

In the trial that concluded last month concerning the second incident, evidence revealed that he broke into a woman’s western New Providence home and robbed her of $165 cash and a $200 Nokia cell phone before sexually assaulting her with a gun to her head, despite her pleas for mercy.

The second incident had occurred during an island-wide power outage.