Police Impersonator gets 9 month sentence

A senior citizen by the name of Winston Williams was  sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court  yesterday for pretending to be a policeman and defrauding two women.

According to The Star:

The frail man was charged with two counts of obtaining money by false pretence.

He pleaded guilty to both counts and proceeded to provide an explanation to the court.

The court was told that Williams took $4,000 from one of the complainants to buy rum, and $1,000 from the other to buy gas knowing that he could not do so.

One of the complainants informed the court that Williams told her he was Corporal Jones and that he worked alongside a gas operator and could therefore get the gas at a much reduced price.

While the other said, “Your Honour, my dad is a retired policeman and he died recently at age 97 and this man (Winston Williams) turned up at my house and said he is a police inspector and that he was a good friend of my father. He saw rum at the house and said he could get more so I gave him the money.”

The court heard that Williams went missing and was spotted sometime after and when the complainant approached him, he ran away and jumped a fence and escaped.

According to the complainant, Williams is known for this practice.

She said, “Your Honour, he goes through the classifieds and search for the dead then look for vulnerable people and tell them he is a policeman and that he can do this and that.”

Senior resident magistrate Judith Pusey said, “… You shouldn’t be going to prison at this point in time.”

Williams was then sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment on each count which will run concurrently.

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