The owner of SureWay Weight Loss Clinic was denied bail after appearing in court charged with fraud.
Dr Surelia Reid, who was detained by the Fraud Squad for five days last month before she was released without being charged, appeared in the Port-of-Spain Magistrates’ Court yesterday accused of issuing a dishonored cheque to a customer last September.
She pleaded not guilty to the charge and attempted to profess her innocence openly in the courtroom before being restrained by her attorney.
Magistrate Christine Charles said she was willing to grant Reid bail but would only do so when police were able to ascertain her primary residence.
While Reid told police she lived at Carmody Drive, St Augustine, investigators informed Charles that residents at the address claimed Reid did not live there.
Her lawyer, Chris Seelochan, explained the address was Reid’s fiancé’s, also the father of one of her four children, and she lived at Timberland Park, D’Abadie.
Charles remanded Reid into custody and ordered her to reappear in court this morning when police are expected to inform her of their checks on the new address provided.
In applying for bail for Reid, Seelochan stated his client was a qualified doctor and had no criminal record. He also claimed she was a single mother to three of her children, ages five, 12 and 13.
Reid is accused of issuing the $4,900 cheque to Keegan Constantine last September 23.
WPC Lizanne Lazarus of the Fraud Squad laid the charge.