‘I’ve never received a dollar from prostitution’ claims Myles

Wayne Carlos Myles

(CNS): Wayne Carlos Myles (38), who is facing several charges of pimping, emphatically denied the allegations against him on Thursday, when he took the stand to give evidence. “I have never received a dollar from any individual in respect to aiding prostitution,” he said, adding that he had no knowledge of any prostitution in the Cayman Islands. Myles told the court he knew nothing about the incriminating messages found on a phone in his possession when he was arrested because it was borrowed, used by many other people and he believed it had been compromised or scoped.

The case against Myles is based largely on evidence found on the phone relating to messages and pictures which appear to show that he was managing a stable of around 32 female sex-workers and charging more than a dozen clients between $200 to $500 per session for their services. The offences are said to have taken place from July 2014 to June 2016, when he was arrested in connection with another offence.

The George Town man has denied all the allegations and repeatedly stated that he knew nothing about the messages until they were disclosed to him after he was charged in preparation for the trial.

But Myles also repeatedly refused to say who the phone in question actually belonged to, as he indicated he did not want to put his life or the lives of his family members at risk. He also refused to name anyone else who may have used the phone at the same time as him.

Myles told the court that just before his arrest he was working at Vic’s bar in George Town doing lots of different jobs, earning between $1,500 and $2,000 per month. He said he came from a poor background and did not have his own smart phone at the time but had been loaned one by the individual he did not wish to name.

Over and over he insisted that he knew nothing at all about the content of the messages and images on the handset that was taken from him. When asked by prosecutor Eleanor Fargin if he had ever “stumbled across them” while he was using the phone to send his messages, he insisted he had never seen them until the data set was given to him after his arrest.

He said he believed that the message may have been fabricated or were part of efforts to scope the phone, so he could not speculate as to how they came to be on the handset.

Myles claimed there were many images and pictures on the phone that clearly did not relate to him and suggested that the crown had only produced a tiny fraction of the data in evidence against him. But the crown claims that they could find no indication that anyone else was using the handset when they interrogated the device.

Myles also had a Gmail, Facebook and Google account on the phone that he was using as well as receipts and innocent pictures and messages about his birthday, all indicating the device was used frequently by Myles.

But he persistently denied knowing about the incriminating messages and graphic images relating to the women the crown said were the prostitutes he was promoting and effectively selling to clients.

He also denied that he had ever been referred to by the street nick-name “Beenie”, a name used frequently in the messages on the phone, contradicting evidence from a police officer who claimed to have known Myles for many years and knew his street name as Beenie. However Myles said that Beenie was the nick-name of Anthony Connor, who was shot and killed outside Mango Tree in 2013 in an as yet unsolved murder.

The case continues.