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Mar 01, 2014 News
Wynette Britton, an auto sales dealer from South Better Hope, East Coast Demerara was yesterday hauled before the courts to be charged again for fraudulent conversion. In 2010 she reportedly collected close to $1M for a motor bus but to date, failed to ever make good on her promises.
Britton yesterday appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and pleaded not guilty to fraud.
On November 4, 2010 at Kitty, Georgetown, Britton was allegedly entrusted with $980,000 by Penelope Andrews to supply her with a Toyota Hiace motor bus. Britton failed to do so and reportedly converted the money to her own use.
According to her lawyer, Nigel Hughes an arrest warrant was issued for the car dealer and she was apprehended on Thursday in front of the St, Margaret’s Primary School on Camp Street collecting her child from school.
“This is a civil dispute,” the lawyer claimed. Hughes told the court that Andrews had paid down for the bus but had never completed the payment so the vehicle has been at the wharf for the past two and a half years.
“Now they’re trying to make it into a criminal matter when it is a civil dispute,” he said.
In making his bail application, the lawyer stated that Britton, a married woman with two children, has had no previous brushes with the law. He said, too, that his client had been reporting to the police station but Andrews had been absent.
State Prosecutor, Corporal Deniro Jones said that the matter dated back to last year February when Britton was charged before the Chief Magistrate for fraudulent conversion.
Jones said that the information was sworn to before the court by Constable Marks. The accused was absent for subsequent court hearings and as such an arrest warrant was issued for her.
The Prosecutor explained that several adjournments were granted by the court due to her absence and the matter was subsequently discharged. However, due to the warrant which was issued for her, she was arrested and hauled before the court to face her charge.
Corporal Jones opined that Britton is a flight risk and objected to bail stating that if granted her pre-trial liberty she will not return to face her charges.
Notwithstanding his objections, Magistrate McLennan placed the woman on $200,000 bail and ordered the Prosecution to have statements filed. The case has been adjourned to March 19 for statements.
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