Man suspected of defrauding Briton has bail extended
Published:Saturday | February 12, 2022 | 12:09 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer
Twenty-eight-year-old Saquino Farr, who is charged with seven counts of obtaining goods by means of false pretence and conspiracy to defraud, is to return to court on March 25 and 29 to answer to the charges.
Farr also had his bail extended when he appeared in the Portland Parish Court on Thursday.
He was charged on July 5, 2018 after British national Florence Anderson reported that her debit card had been used to make purchases without her knowledge and authorisation.
Prior to his arrest in 2018, the police said that Farr, a resident of Mount Pleasant district in Portland, was questioned about the gruesome killing of an elderly British couple, 74-year-old Hopeton Anderson and 71-year-old Florence Anderson, but he was not charged with their murder.
The Andersons, who resided in Mount Pleasant, were found dead on June 22, 2018, just days after filing a report with the police that more than $8 million had been stolen from their bank accounts.
Their bodies were burnt and their house set ablaze.
A post mortem concluded that the couple had also been shot.