Atg: Fame!

"I am a celebrity," a smiling Wade William Gajadhar declared, following his trial as he was leaving the precincts of the St. John's Magistrate Court to board an immigration vehicle, with scores of people looking on and jeering at him.

Enjoying his newly attained notoriety in Antigua, the doctor of deception, "Dr Richards," was hauled before the court yesterday to answer to charges of larceny.

He pleaded "guilty with explanation" to the offence, at which time acting Chief Magistrate Maureen Hyman Payne, having heard the facts, ordered restitution of the $380 he had siphoned from a 25-year-old Guyanese woman.

He was also deported from the jurisdiction.