A jury has convicted a 32-auto electrician of raping his 43-year-old common-law wife after accusing her of having another man.

He is to be sentenced in the Home Circuit Court on Friday. The couple lived in a one-bedroom house in Bull Bay, St Andrew and were living together for six years up to the time of the offence in December 2006.

The woman testified that she was ironing her clothes to go to work when the accused said she was going to look for her man. He beat her and then raped her.

The matter was reported to the police and the accused was arrested and charged.

She said that some time before the incident, she did not have an intimate relationship with the accused. She said she continued to live in the house with him because she did not have anywhere else to go.

In his defence, the accused said that he had sexual intercourse with the complainant but it was with her consent.