PORT-OF-SPAIN – Detective Corporal Stephen Jerome yesterday turned up at the Arouca Police Station and provided investigators with a sample of his DNA, as part of the investigations arising out of the rape charge against him.

Jerome, who is now out on $75 000 bail, drove his heavily-tinted, dark blue Toyota Corolla, with 17-inch chrome rims, into the parking lot of the station around 3:45 p.m. The car is registered as a hired vehicle.

On Tuesday, Jerome's colleagues shielded him from the media as persistent photographers attempted to take his picture when he appeared before Arima Magistrate Indra Ramoo-Haynes. He was ordered to provide a DNA sample by the magistrate as part of his bail conditions.

Jerome, 36 a father of one, of Paradise East, Dinsley Village, Tacarigua, was accused of raping the 35-year-old American nursing assistant at the Arouca Police Station around 12:30 p.m.on Sunday.

The woman at the time was seeking her fiancee's interest. The man had been detained following a family squabble.

According to the charges it is alleged that Jerome raped the woman while she was at the station.

Jerome reappears on Tuesday. (Trinidad Express)