Man gets suspended sentence for 2018 cheque forgery

Eight years after he tried to cash a forged cheque, Anton Grant has received a suspended prison sentence in the No. 4A Supreme Court.

Grant confesses to committing fraud almost eight years ago.  

He admitted in the No. 4A Supreme Court that on August 17, 2018, he, with intent to defraud, uttered a forged bill of exchange purporting to be a Republic Bank (Barbados) Limited cheque made payable to himself in the sum of $3 700 and drawn on the account of Berkeley Brathwaite trading as H&H Shuttle Services, with intent to defraud the bank knowing the same to be forged or altered. He also admitted to endeavouring to obtain the funds by virtue of the forged cheque.  

Justice Donna Babb-Agard gave a four-year starting point for the uttering offence, deducting one-third for his guilty plea, one year for the delay, and six months for mitigating factors. She ordered him to serve the remaining one year and 60 days but suspended the sentence for two years.  

She sentenced him to spend six months at Dodds for the charge of endeavouring to obtain, and also suspended this for two years.  

The sentences are to run consecutively.  

The judge further instructed that Grant attend vocational training and drug counselling.  

(JB)