Blackman gets stiff sentence for criminal acts

For the next 16 years Alonzo Olivere Junior Blackman will be housed at HMP Dodds, his punishment for burglarizing a home and raping a teacher while her deaf mother sat in the next room unaware.

Justice Carlisle Greaves considered nothing less than a 20-year starting point in respect of the rape, saying “It was a stranger rape, committed in the dark of the night in the victim’s home, during which he struggled , choked and smothered her and exposed her to possible veneral diseases and unwanted pregnancy, together with his threat to kill her if she reported it.”

The 23-year-old Collins, St Peter resident has five previous convictions, four for burglary at the homes of women.

Further aggravating factors, according to Acting Senior Crown Counsel Rudolph Burnett included the victim’s flashback episodes and her need for counseling along with the breach of security and sanctity of the victim’s home.

His early guilty plea and the evidence that the offence was committed under the influence of marijuana were considered to be mitigating factors.

Blackman expressed remorse for his actions, pledging to take a different path.

The judge considered a sentence of 25 years imprisonment to be appropriate for the charge of rape. Deducting a full 1/3rd discount for the guilty plea, and crediting the 90 days spent on remand up to October 9, 2020, the sentence was rounded off to 16 years imprisonment effective from the same date. He was sentenced to eight years imprisonment for the burglary which will run concurrently. The starting point for the burglary was 12 years less a 1/3rd discount for the guilty plea.

According to the facts, around 3 a.m. on May 22, 2019, the complainant heard the dogs barking and curiously set out to see what was marking them bark. She got up from her bedroom and walked to the bathroom. Looking through the bathroom window she noticed that light was coming from outside and shining through the window in the garage. This was unusual and she soon realized that the mosquito screen was missing.

She returned to the corridor of her house and turned on the kitchen lights. As she flicked the lights she saw the figure of a man crouching between a couch and a table.

Blackman ran towards her, held her around the neck and began to choke her. The two scuffled and Blackman pushed the woman into the second bedroom.

He threw her to the ground and got on top of her, muffling her screams for help with a pillow and ripped off her panties saying “I want some.”

Blackman took off his pants, told the woman to bend over on the bed and had sex with her. After some time he stopped and sat next to the woman on the bed and told her: “I had like you from every since.”

In an attempt to convince Blackman to cease, the woman told him that she was pregnant but he proceeded to rape her again.

When he finished he pulled up his pants and told the woman if she said anything to anyone, he would kill her. He then left the house. The matter was reported to police.

The court heard that the victim’s mother was in the house at the time but she is hearing impaired.