Man fined $100,000 for home rental scam

A man was yesterday ordered to pay a $100,000 fine or serve a year in jail after he admitted to scamming a woman by renting her an occupied house that belonged to someone else.

Jermaine Henry, 32, appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on a charge of obtaining money under false pretence.

It was alleged that on May 9, in Georgetown, Henry, with the intent to