Lawyer blames fraud charges on break-up

A Kitty man was last week arraigned on multiple charges of fraudulent conversion, which his attorney claimed was the result of a break-up with his accuser.

Wickham Sancho, of 215 David Street, Kitty, denied the five charges of fraudulent conversion read against him at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court 1 last Thursday. Sancho, a painter, is being accused of fraudulently converting $605,000 to his own use and benefit, after the money was solely entrusted to him by Onesha Manns, between April 1 and April 30, 2014, at Pike Street, Kitty, to purchase five flat-screen televisions.

It is also alleged that between May 1 and August 30, 2014, at Pike Street, Sancho fraudulently converted $180,000, which was given to