Taxi man to repay US$800 after failing to find lawyer

Desmond Cummings

A taxi driver is now to repay a woman US$800 after he was entrusted by her to contact a lawyer to process bail for her son, Keifer Downer.

Desmond Cummings, 43, of Lot 200 Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly in Court Two on 11th August. He pleaded guilty to the charge that on 10th December, 2022, at Georgetown, being solely entrusted by Onika Albert with the sum of US$800, to contact a lawyer to process bail for her son, he fraudulently misappropriated same.