BY RASBERT TURNER, Star Writer
SPANISH TOWN
ROHAN JOHNSON, A teacher charged with bigamy, was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment at hard labour in the St. Catherine Circuit Court on Wednesday.
The Crown led evidence that Johnson, 31, a teacher, got married to two women seven years apart without being legally separated.
It was revealed that the ladies learnt they were married to the same man when Johnson was arrested in 2003 on a charge of rape, by the St. Mary police. Both women would visit at intervals, until they realised they were both Mrs. Johnson.
A report was made to the Spanish Town police as Johnson was living in Old Harbour with one of his wives. The other lived in Moneague, St. Ann. Following investigations he was charged with bigamy. The court heard the documents for the last marriage was hidden by Johnson, but police used statements from the minister who officiated in Johnson's second marriage.
Johnson previously pleaded not guilty, However, on December 2, he changed his plea to guilty and was sentenced by Justice Wesley James on Wednesday, after his lawyer, Earl Hamilton, made an impassioned plea for leniency, citing that he is already serving a 10-year rape sentence.
The investigation was led by Detective Constable Oswald Bettancourt of the Spanish Town Criminal Investigation Branch.
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