News Forged ex's signature on cheque
A man wrote a cheque in his ex-girlfriend's name because he she owed him money from credit-card transactions, a court was told.
Charles Gormley (45) wrote out a cheque for £270 after forging the woman's signature and paid it into his own bank account, Goole magistrates were told.
This week Mr Gormley appeared at the town's magistrates' court, where he pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation between February 24 and March 10 this year.
The court was told that Mr Gormley wrote out a cheque in the name of Carol Edge, his ex-partner, and then paid it into his bank account.
Julie Laverack-Glanville, prosecut-ing, said Mr Gormley and Ms Edge had been in a relationship for about six years and had lived together at Mr Gormley's house in Cecil Street, Goole.
But in February this year they split up and Ms Edge moved to Stoke-on-Trent.
She had inadvertently left a cheque book behind at Mr Gormley's house, which he found.
Ms Laverack-Glanville said Mr Gormley believed Ms Edge owed him money for some internet purchases she made on his credit card prior to their break-up.
She added that Mr Gormley presented the signed cheque to a cashier in Goole and then cashed it.
On March 2 Ms Edge discovered that a cheque for £270 had left her account. Fearing her cheque book had been stolen, she reported it to the police and her bank.
Only later did she learn that it was Mr Gormley who had cashed the cheque.
Ms Laverack-Glanville said Ms Edge rang Mr Gormley and he admitted that he had cashed it.
Ms Edge said that if she had known it was Mr Gormley she would not have reported the matter.
Nick Clay, defending, said during their relationship Mr Gormley and Ms Edge had allowed each other to take money out of their respective bank accounts but that they did not have a joint account.
They had split up after an argument and Mr Gormley returned home from work to find Ms Edge had left.
Mr Clay added that Mr Gormley, who works as a stacker and picker for an employment agency, had written himself the cheque to cover the amount Ms Edge had spent on his credit card before moving to Stoke.
He said that Ms Edge had since repaid Mr Gormley by writing him a cheque for £270. Mr Gormley, in turn, had repaid the bank.
Magistrates gave Mr Gormley a 12-month conditonal discharge and ordered him to pay £55 prosecution costs.
Published on 28th August 2008 in News.
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