Harking back to the many conversations on here regarding bank card payments, the Labour General Election Candidate for Wellingborough, Richard Garvie was convicted of fraud yesterday after buying £900 worth of rail tickets using a bank card from an account closed in 2011.
How he managed to continue to transact on a closed account that was £2k overdrawn is a puzzle.
I note that he has now been suspended from his Party but he remains a candidate. He should do well if elected.
http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/n...uspended-after-conviction-for-fraud-1-6719687
How he managed to continue to transact on a closed account that was £2k overdrawn is a puzzle.
I note that he has now been suspended from his Party but he remains a candidate. He should do well if elected.
http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/n...uspended-after-conviction-for-fraud-1-6719687
Francesca Gosling said:The Labour Party has suspended its Wellingborough and Rushden Parliamentary candidate after he was found guilty of fraud after buying train tickets worth almost £900 using a card for a closed bank account.
Richard Garvie, 30, of Rowlett Road, Corby, who denied the charges, said he “intentionally” ran up the debt because, although he knew he did not have sufficient money in the account to pay for the 17 different transactions, he believed his bank would honour the payments.
Fred Sagoe, prosecuting, said: “He was arrested in April 2014 after making numerous payments with a bank card he knew was for an empty account.”
Garvie was charged with fraud after he bought £890 of East Midlands Trains tickets between Kettering and London St Pancras over the course of a year through the account, as well as tickets with other train lines.
The account was closed in 2011 when it became £2,000 overdrawn.
Representing himself at Wellingborough Magistrates’ Court today, Garvie said: “I fully accept it was the case that purchases were made using an account that was overdrawn...
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