By SANCHESKA BROWN

Tribune Staff Reporter

sbrown@tribunemedia.net

ONE OF THE MEN in custody for the alleged gang rape of a 23-year-old Biminite is the boyfriend of the victim, the Tribune has learned.

Assistant Commissioner of Police Emmrick Seymour said according to his information one of the men currently incarcerated for the sexual assault is in a relationship with the victim.

He confirmed that police still have seven men in custody and “due process is being followed”.

According to Tribune sources, the victim claims she was “drugged by her attackers” after going with them to a night club.

The victim, sources say,  went out with a cousin to a local bar where they met two men. They later left the bar and went to the Big John club, where they met an another four men. At about 1:45am, she and her cousin, left with the men for another club, where one of the men gave her a drink and about 20 minutes later she felt sick and started to throw up before she “blacked out”.

The men then, allegedly took her home, where it was claimed that four of them raped her. The victim called the police and went to the local clinic, however her injuries were so severe that she was airlifted to the Rand Memorial Hospital in Freeport for treatment.

Police later arrested eight men, all construction workers – a 28-year-old man from Long Island and seven men from New Providence ages 39, 31,21, 20, 26, 18 and 20.

One man has since been released.

A resident on the island has insisted that Biminites are growing impatient with the lack of urgency that authorities seem to have put on the situation. They said it is only a matter of days before angry residents “deal with” the persons who they believe are responsible.

Investigations are ongoing.