Labourer makes good use of $483,000

Sep 24, 2010 News

…claims goats jumped 8-ft fence

Rudolph Heywood was entrusted with $483,000 by Winston Anderson to purchase one grass cutter, two goats, two truckloads of mud and one chainsaw.
Anderson, who is a Canadian citizen, returned to Guyana on September 21, last, and found that none of the said items were purchased.
Anderson was shocked. He enquired the absence of the articles and got a variety of answers. Heywood told Anderson that the two goats were purchased and just the day before they jumped an eight-foot fence and ran away.
When Anderson voiced his disbelief, Heywood then told him that someone placed planks and the goats climbed them and scaled the fence.
Anderson immediately got angry and threatened to go to the police. Heywood begged for a chance but that chance was not forthcoming. Anderson dragged him to the Leonora Police Station.
The police questioned Heywood and instituted charges. The two men ended up in the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Nyasha Williams-Hatmin, yesterday.
Heywood was called on to answer to the charge of fraudulent conversion.
Prosecutor Krishnadat Ramana told the court that between January 1, and July 31, 2010, the accused, a labourer, of lot 70 De Kenderen, West Coast Demerara, said that when Anderson eventually got a proper explanation, he heard Heywood say that he used the said money to pay off his house loan at the bank.
Heywood then started to cry. He announced that he was a father of five who depended on him but that did not prevent him from heading to the remand section of the Camp Street jail.
He was led out of the court still crying, perhaps remembering how the imaginary goats jumped an eight-foot fence.
He had earlier told the magistrate that he would repay every cent. He asked for time. The magistrate granted him his wish and she told him that the prison van would arrive at 14:00 hours.
He could not meet that deadline so the magistrate granted him another deadline— November 1, which would be the date of his next court appearance.
Should Heywood fail to make restitution by then the magistrate promised him a jail term, the length of which she did not specify.

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