Convicted Rapist Ignatius Williams Gets 8 Years in Prison

Ignatius Williams

Thirty-year-old Ignatius Williams has been sentenced to eight years and three months at the Belize Central Prison after being convicted of the rape of a woman back in August 2019.  On Wednesday evening, Justice Candace Nanton delivered a sentence after Williams pleaded guilty to rape and sparing the victim from having to testify against him in December 2023.  Williams was initially sentenced to fourteen years in prison, or the equivalent of one hundred and sixty-eight months.  The High Court judge subsequently deducted fifty-six months because Williams pleaded guilty to the offense and saved the court from going through a complete trial.  Justice Nanton then deducted another thirteen months for the time that Williams has spent on remand, leaving him with ninety-nine months, or a little over eight years behind bars.  On August seventeenth, 2019, Williams carried out an aggravated burglary when he entered the home of a woman, placed a knife to her neck, took her into a bedroom and proceeded to have sexual intercourse with her against her will.