around the Island in a car pleaded guilty just minutes before he was due to go on trial in Supreme Court yesterday.

Calvin Eugene Trott, 30, changed his plea to guilty to the double rape and a robbery charge and will now undergo a battery of tests by a psychiatrist before being sentenced on March 15.

Crown counsel Peter Eccles told Puisne Judge Norma Wade-Miller that because of the last minute plea change, he could not give a summary of the facts to the court.

Trott's lawyer Elizabeth Christopher asked for the psychiatric report.

Trott, of Mount Hope Lane, Smith's Parish, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault while armed with a knife and charges of robbing one of the women of $500 and robbing the other of $150.

He pleaded not guilty to a charge of breaking and entering one woman's home on September 25, and two counts of depriving the women of their liberty.

Mr. Eccles offered no evidence on the charges and asked the court to enter not guilty verdicts.

The women told investigating officers that Trott raped them at knifepoint and held them captive in a car as he drove around the Island until one of them was able to escape.

He appeared to momentarily have some difficulty to pleading guilty to the charge of robbery, originally pleading not guilty but changing his plea after Ms Christopher spoke with him.