A security guard who was raped while working alone on a night shift at a car lot in Montego Bay, St James has been awarded more than $10 million in damages after the Supreme Court found her former employer, Marksman Limited, negligent in its duty to provide a safe working environment.

In a judgment delivered by Justice Dale Staple, the court held that the company failed to take reasonable steps to protect the employee, identified as A.C., who was stationed alone in a guardhouse at Island Car Rentals Limited on February 5, 2018.

“In my view, the Defendant failed to have any system in place that contemplated the safety of a female employee deployed to a location alone at night. This was a lesson they should have learnt from the Lavern Anderson case, but clearly have not,” the judge said.