Port Kaituma woman on fraud charges over sale of clothes

A Port Kaituma resident was yesterday charged with two counts of fraudulent conversion, after allegedly failing to hand over the proceeds from clothes she agreed to sell for other people.

Marilyn Barrington, who appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The court heard that between April 1 and April 15, Barrington allegedly received $123,000 in clothing from Vashti Anys