(Barbados Nation) A medical practitioner and his wife were each granted bail when they appeared in court yesterday charged with the theft of over Bds$1/2 million.
Dr Charles Malcolm Alexander Grant 50, and Carole-Anne Grant , 52, of Eagle’s Nest, Dairy Meadows, St James, appeared in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court on 18 counts of theft of sums totalling over Bds$562 725 from the Sandy Crest Medical Centre, Holetown, St James.
The offences are alleged to have occurred between November 2008 and January 2010 while Grant was managing director of the St James clinic.
Bail was posted at Bds$250 000 each with a surety.
After the hearing before Magistrate Graveney Bannister they left the court via a rear exit, away from news photographers waiting outside.
The couple will return to court on January 3 and 4, 2013.