Fraudster pays $7 500 fine

A message of deterrence must be sent to those people who engage in crimes of financial fraud.

So said Justice Laurie-Ann Smith-Bovell as she imposed a starting sentence of six years in prison on Diego Jerome King when he reappeared in the No. 4 Supreme Court yesterday.

She later suspended the jail time left after deductions and ordered him to pay a forthwith fine.

King, of York Terrace, The Pine, St Michael, had pleaded guilty, at an earlier Session of the Continuous Sittings...