By PAVEL BAILEY
Tribune Staff Reporter
pbailey@tribunemedia.net
A BUS driver was found guilty yesterday of sexually assaulting a female passenger while threatening her with a hammer outside the Mall of Marathon in 2021.
Justice Guillimina Archer-Minns presided as the attempted rape trial of Douglas Eddy, 37, concluded.
During the trial, the 21-year-old victim said she was riding Edey’s number 15 bus on the evening of March 7, 2021, when he pulled out a hammer and threatened her outside the bus near Kelly’s Home Centre at the Mall at Marathon. She said he forced her into the bus and attempted to sexually assault her.
She recounted through tears how she fought her assailant and “felt it” when he put the tip of his penis inside her.
She also said the convict rubbed her private parts and saw him put on a condom. She briefly managed to escape before he dragged her back onto the bus.
Edey was arrested outside Kelly’s Lumber Yard on East Street in the company of a visibly traumatised victim later that evening.
Attorney Nathan Smith, who represented Edey, suggested the victim and the defendant were in a relationship during the incident. The complainant denied these claims.
After reviewing the evidence, the jury unanimously found Edey guilty.
The convict will be remanded to the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services until a probation report is given in court on September 28.
Eucal Bonaby prosecuted the case.
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