Dealer to serve two extra years for pimping
(CNS): A local man who is already serving a 13-year prison sentence for dealing cocaine was given an additional two years for pimping charges on Friday, following his conviction last year. Wayne Myles is the first person in the Cayman Islands to be found guilty of living off the earnings of prostitution, after investigators found evidence on his phone, which was seized during the drug investigation, that he was also running a stable of sex workers.
Despite efforts by Myles’ defence attorney to get the sentence cut to the lowest level possible and to have it run concurrent to the time he is serving for dealing, the judge took a dim view. Justice Marlene Carter gave Myles two years for the exploitation crimes, which she considered serious and a separate course of offending. She therefore added them to his existing sentence, leaving Myles with a lengthy 15 years to serve.
Myles was said to have been controlling several dozen women for almost three years between 2014 and 2017. Based on dozens of images and messages recovered from his phone, police said he was charging hundreds of dollars to various ‘clients’ for a night with the women, from which he was taking a cut.
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Why , because his hands is clean and his heart are pure?
Shouldn’t women have the right to choose what to do with their bodies? Shouldn’t women also have the right to seek assistance finding clients if they don’t have the connections &/or skills to build a sustainable client base?
I sometimes wonder where all of this opposition to women’s rights is coming from.
Whatever right they want – in their own country!
I suspect that the only people that would have a problem with women’s rights in these circumstances are those individuals that think of themselves as less than attractive.
I dont need saving. A need to work in a regulated system that protects me.
What are your qualifications and experience and what regulations are you looking for?
Same ones they have in Holland or Germany.
What is wrong for choosing prostitution? I am an adult who makes informed choices and can support my family while not pawning my children off into inferior childcare services in Cayman. Hiwever I do believe that my choice should not be exploited by a pimp.
Soooo. . . who were the clients? They get off scot-free? Guess they were too high up on the social scale to be arrested. This bias crap really needs to stop.
Caymanian men.
Ya, only Caymanian men, right! What a stupid comment. No other men want sex I guess.
I bet he didn’t have a Trade & Business Licence for his pimping business! Should have been convicted for that as well!
There is something strange about this story! Is prostitution legal in the Cayman Islands? If not, why were the women in question not charged? Also, are any of the women claiming that they were unwilling participants or was this a situation where the women were happy to offer their services in exchange for money? If Myles was simply acting as a broker for consenting adults then he should only be serving time for dealing drugs but not for pimping.
Very sad that through lack of money women are forced to consider such work. Ills of inequality.
Ills of I inequality? What are you talking about?
The client list should be printed, and they charged.
These were young caymanian girls . He always had 4-5 girls around . People knew what he was doing as he bragged about it !! The clients were young caymanian men not high on the social scale.
1.00pm At last a comment here that makes sense.
Mysteriously, being a prostituted person is NOT EXPRESSLY ILLEGAL in Penal Code. Section 136 prohibits “a person” procuring a woman or girl, and section 139 with gender-specific “male person living on earnings of prostitution”. Therefore female/non-male gender pimps can technically sell the modesty of men, or boys with impunity, and it’s fine to be a prostitute, right up until the criminal pays for it. Bad/unenforced laws abound.
Assuming that these women consented on the basis that they were happy to offer their services is a contribution to rape culture. I’m appalled by the number of thumbs up on this comment.
Say what you want about the man. He did right by those women and they never seemed to mind. Heck they made a lot of loot.
Give us his client list, I dare ya
I’ll take the girls list!
You run a home delivery service and you get 2 years for pimping. You run a bar where clients can make direct arrangements with the girls and you take a slice and you get – nothing. Hell, your employees can be found to have bribed their way through the English language test whilst you as an employer never noticed they couldn’t speak the language and – nothing. For you at least. Mr Myles biggest problem – not pimping to the right people or not paying his way.
It seems this island is the most women unfriendly place in the world.
Probably has something to do with the way they see christianity.
Au contraire, being a prostitute is not illegal. Paying and selling are.
It’s seemingly legal for women or non-male persons to be pimps, and any person can sell themselves, but illegal for any person to procure them. Not saying this is a good law, but it is how the Penal Code was written (and feels like it was specifically designed when authored to insulate a particular female pimp), approved again in 2017. The clients should definitely be prosecuted on strength of material evidence in that phone. Why that hasn’t happened (per the Penal Code) should be the ongoing priority issue.
He looks like a jamaican pastor. Disgusting animal.
Just when you start to have hope in humanity, comments like this come along…
Let’s go protest at the Burger King!
I am certainly against the degradation of any human being male or female. However, like every other criminal activity, if there is a demand, money is going to be the prime purpose of carrying out such an activity irregardless of who the trickle down effects hurt.
Getting a full grip of such anti-social behaviour in these islands means that the powers to be have to be serious about filtering out the ‘big’ bosses who orchestra, manage, and carryout these activities.
Let’s get a grip on these anti-social behaviours that are unfortunately rampant in the ‘new’ Cayman’ that has resulted from the so-called development/progress of these islands.
Only in Cayman would you get 4 commenters out of 5 making excuses for this scum. Not one of them mentions his history as a cocaine dealer spreading addiction and misery around the island to line his own pockets. He deserves every single day of his 15 years and bravo to the judge for a great example of punishment should fit the crime.
only in cayman ? Sure about that..
9.13pm Yes I am quite sure, read the additional comments. Caymanians supporting their own no matter what crimes they commit is a local tradition.
You mean Mac ?
At least Mac gets a lot of flak, the difference is not only that , but he survives it all without any consequences – guess why?.
Many Laws are badly written, giving limited powers, missing Regulations, and even then, often overlooked by those entrusted to defend the public interest (or their own). The charge for pimping was justified, but the additional charges for solicitation and procurement by client list did not follow from the same material evidence and transcripts on the phone. The public needs to ask why that did not happen, and take it up with the case officer at RCIPS and Commissioner. Powerful men kept the Heidi Fleiss client list improperly buttoned-up in the USA for years, and we seem to be emulating their misogyny.
4.36am. Are you sure he is a Caymanian??? Scum like him.
Friend of mine that used to work for him justified her actions due to not being able to meet rent and put food on the table alone making $6/hr. The issue runs deeper.
Human trafficking is alive and well in Cayman
And we have Caymanians doing it overseas
Pimpin’ ain’t easy!
How long has this disgusting home grown criminal been dealing cocaine and pimping women, it must be over many many years, yet only now is he punished. I just hope the authorities in Northward keep him in solitary and under constant observation as otherwise with the number of cell phones that are smuggled in, he will be able to continue his criminal enterprises from inside.
Do you actually think Wayne Myles is the only person in the history of these islands to be involved in the prostitution racket, and that he alone has some indispensable knowledge that would retain him as the pimp king to call for his 15 years in Northward?
Agreed at 12:46pm. I know for a fact we have prostitutes in Cayman and above them are pimps. It’s just a matter of, how do we save these women?
You deport them to their home countries and ensure that salaries are enough to support all persons in Cayman without being forced to turn to prostitution
The RCIPS neglected to arrest the procuration “Johns” under section 136 of Penal Code, despite having the corroborating material evidence and transcripts (required to meet the standard) recovered from the same phone. Who at the RCIPS led this investigation, and why aren’t they themselves now being referred for investigation/corruption?
12.46pm I don’t, I’m sure there are plenty of other Caymanians who have been pimping over the years, but you seem to have overlooked the fact that 13 years of his sentence were for dealing cocaine and with a cell phone he can return to both of his criminal enterprises.