SIXTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD freelance journalist Michael David Kirton, for whom the Police issued a wanted bulletin last week, appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson on Friday last and was remanded to prison.
A few days after his overseas-based brother, former diplomat Wesley Kirton wrote a letter, to the Press, urging him to turn himself in, the defendant, of Lot 222 Rouel Street, Soesdyke, faced two charges of obtaining money by false pretence and pleaded not guilty to both.
One charge said, last February 8, in King Street, Georgetown, with intent to defraud, he obtained $105,000 from Shawn Waadift, by falsely pretending that he is the owner of house lot number 1372 in Sixth Street, New Diamond Housing Scheme, also on East Bank Demerara, and was in a position to sell it to him.
The other allegation against Kirton is that, also on February 8, with intent to defraud, he prepared an agreement of sale and purchase between himself and Rajendra Samaroo, purporting to show he is the owner of the same house lot and was in a position to sell it, knowing that to be false.
Kirton is to make his next Court appearance on April 13.