Bail for Bajan doctor, wife accused of theft

(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.

Dr Charles Malcolm Alexander Grant  and Carole-Anne Grant
Dr Charles Malcolm Alexander Grant and Carole-Anne Grant

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.