A 28-year-old make-up artist from Guyana was sentenced to nine months in prison when she appeared in court here on Wednesday.
Lolita Callender-Skelton was sentenced to nine months for conspiracy to personate.
Following the conclusion of a three-day trial, Magistrate Ayanna Baptiste-DaBreo said she weighed the evidence and found Callender-Skelton guilty of soliciting a man to obtain an HIV test in her name.
The court ordered that her nine-month sentence take effect from the day that she was first placed on remand.
In handing down the sentence, the magistrate overruled a no-case submission from Callender-Skelton’s attorney.
The Crown called a total of six witnesses — four civilians and two police officers.
The civilian witnesses testified that they encountered Callender-Skelton at Peebles Hospital and at Medicare Laboratory on the days in question.
The police witnesses said that during the course of their investigation, they included CCTV footage.
However, after the Crown closed its case, Callender-Skelton chose to remain silent and opted to not testify in her defence or to call witnesses to testify on her behalf.
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