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Man jailed over fake $1000 notes

Jun 27, 2014 News

A 32-year-old man was yesterday sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for being in possession of counterfeit $1,000 notes when police searched him August, last year.
Seon Davis, of D’Urban Street, Lodge was charged with possession of forged currency.
He was busted with six counterfeit $1000 notes in his pants pocket by police ranks at the Stabroek Market area on August 29, 2013. He had pleaded not guilty on September 3, last at his first arraignment.
Yesterday at the city court, Magistrate Faith McGusty, before whom a trial was conducted, found Davis guilty as charged. He was unrepresented by legal counsel and was prosecuted by Corporal Seon Blackman.
During mitigation, Magistrate McGusty stated that she had considered the case of the Prosecution as well as the defence he attempted to lead.
“I remained in doubt with your defence and I have dismissed it. If you had indeed been given the money by someone else as payment for a cellular phone, you would have stated so when the police approached you.”
“If I place myself in your position, I would have been interested in finding the person. I would have given the police adequate information to show that I indeed sold a phone and the gentleman gave me forged currency.”
“After being tried before the courts since January 31, it was only on June 19 that you tried to sell a different story. At this point, I cannot rely on your defence.
“Given the circumstance I believe that you knew that the notes were forged.”
The court, she said, had found him guilty as charged since the Prosecution had proven the elements of the offence to the court’s satisfaction.
In a plea of mitigation, Davis told the court “I get two years de other day.”
The Prosecution revealed too that he had several matters before the courts, but of a different nature. Blackman said that Davis had shown no remorse and asked that the court sentence him as it sees fit.
Magsitrate McGusty sentenced Davis to 18 months imprisonment. The jail term is set to run concurrently with the two-year sentence that was handed down by another Magistrate.

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