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After six years and a KN expose…Court finally returns pensioner’s $100,000 bail
Victor Walters is finally a happy man.
Staff at the Georgetown Magistrates Court last week finally gave him a $100,000 cheque for bail he had paid some six years ago.
But had it not been for his persistence, the pensioner and former security guard might never have received his money.
He was forced to turn to Kaieteur News last month after getting the proverbial “run around” by a court employee.
Mr. Walters said the female employee had repeatedly told him that the documents related to the case had been destroyed during a flood.
That meant, according to the employee, that Mr. Walters could not be refunded.
However, after Kaieteur News reported on the pensioner’s plight and visited the court, an employee requested that Mr. Walters go there to sort out the transaction.
After turning up with a receipt, Mr. Walters was asked to return with an affidavit.
This he did last week, and the $100,000 checque was turned over to the relieved pensioner.
“I am happy now,” he told Kaieteur News on Friday, adding that he did not see the female court employee who he said had thwarted his attempts to collect his money.
Victor Walters with a copy of his receipt
But he said that no one even offered him an apology. He also believes that the court should reimburse him for the expenses he incurred “going and coming.”
There is also the fact that the cash he is now collecting is of far less value that it was six years ago.
Mr. Walters’ troubles started in 2012, when a relative of his was charged with armed robbery. A female relative pleaded with him to help post bail for the accused.
According to Mr. Walters, he withdrew $100,000 from his bank account and gave the female relative. He collected a receipt, which showed that the money had been paid over to the court.
But when he went to uplift his money some two weeks after, Walters said that a clerk informed him that the documents could not be found, because “the case docket got destroyed in a flood.”
“The lady keep telling me they had a flood and they can’t find the docket, and when they find it they will call me.
“After she did not get it, I keep going and she saying the same thing; they had a flood and can’t find the docket.”
“I withdrew all that money and now to get back the money is problems.”
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