Woman fined for making false oath over dead mother’s property

Jul 19, 2017 Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News

A 44-year-old woman found herself in some hot water yesterday after she was charged for making false oaths to affidavits dating back to 2004 to acquire a property her mother died and left.

CHARGED: Maxine Baird Sampson

Maxine Baird Sampson of East Ruimveldt Housing Scheme, Georgetown, was arraigned before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts where she pleaded guilty to the allegations.
Particulars of the first charge against her alleged that on October 23, 2004, at Georgetown, she took a false oath to an affidavit in a letter of administration stating that Lynette Duncan, her mother, had one child. This was false and was intended to cause a letter of administration to be granted to her.
It was further alleged that on May 10, 2005 at Georgetown, she took a false oath to an affidavit requesting title of an estate, stating that Lynette Duncan, had one child and she was the sole beneficiary, which was false.
She was ordered to pay a fine of $100,000 on each charge with an alternative of serving a nine months prison term.
According to Police Prosecutor Arvin Moore, on October 23, 2004 Sampson went to a Commissioner of Oath to Affidavit and swore that she was the only child for Lynette Duncan, who is deceased and applied for the plot of land at Lot 227 Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara. The prosecutor said that Sampson then applied to the Deeds Registry and the title was granted to her.
She later sold the property for $1.4M
It was Sampson’s brother, Mark Baird, who reported the matter to the Brickdam Police Station. Investigations were carried out and Sampson was arrested.
Sampson told the Chief Magistrate that she sold the property because she was burdened with paying the rates and taxes. She related that her siblings reside in the United States of America and none of them assisted her with paying the rates and taxes.
The woman related that in order to sell the property she was advised by someone to state that she was the only child for her mother.

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