…for fraud related to obtaining vehicles by uttering a forged cheque

A MAN who is well known to the court for numerous fraud charges was on Friday found guilty on one and sentenced to 36 months imprisonment after he appeared before magistrate Fabayo Azore in Georgetown Magistrates’ Court

Clayton Allen, 56 of South Better Hope, East Coast Demerara, first appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan where he denied the allegation when the charge was read to him.

The charge alleged that between December 2 to December 13, 2016, in Georgetown, with intent to defraud, he obtained from Jeetendra Ram of Fantasy Auto Sales six motorcars valued $26,300,000 under or by virtue of forged Republic Bank Ltd. managers cheque #GDAA 0108766 in favour of Fantasy Auto Sales.

Magistrate Azore in her ruling told the court that she is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that police prosecution has made its case.
She added that she also believed the evidence of the prosecution’s witnesses, which was led by Police Prosecution.

Before the sentence was handed down, Allen asked the magistrate to be lenient when passing sentence because he is a father of seven and only breadwinner for his family.
However Allen was sentence to 36 months imprisonment.

According to facts, the two parties entered into an agreement of sale to purchase six motorcars from Ram’s company and he paid with a manger’s cheque. The court heard that when Ram tried to encash the cheque he realised that it was forged.
Allen also has matters in different courts pertaining to similar offences.