A man who helped a rapist violate a woman has been sentenced to seven months' imprisonment. Vincent Brown pleaded guilty to a charge of abetment to rape before his trial began before Justice Vera Watkins yesterday. Brown and Theo Delancy held a woman down on a boat that was moored on Potter's Cay Dock while an unknown third person raped her on December 4, 2010.

Delancy was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment at the end of his trial last year, but the case against Brown ended in a mistrial. In considering sentence, Watkins said that Brown deserved the same sentence as his co-accused. However, she deducted the four years and five months that Brown had spent on remand awaiting trial.

Watkins subtracted another two years for Brown's guilty plea and that his first trial ended in a mistrial through no fault of his own. The victim said that she had asked Brown for help in getting to her boat, which someone had released. The woman said she was drinking Aristocrat gin with Brown on his boat when Brown and Delancy pinned her hands and legs down as a Haitian man raped her.

The rapist was never charged with the crime. Maria Zancolla was the prosecutor. Court-appointed lawyer Anthony Forbes appeared for Brown.

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