FORMER Caldon Finance group director Nicole Fullerton yesterday had her $6-million bail extended when she appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court to answer to a charge of breaching the Bail Act.

However, Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey, ordered Fullerton to surrender her travel documents and told her not to attempt to leave the island before December 14 when she is to be sentenced for fraud.

Fullerton was found guilty on Monday of three counts of fraudulent conversion of $15 million and was instructed to make provisions to return the money before the date of her sentencing as it would weigh heavily on what course the court would take in sentencing her.

Fullerton was held by the police Tuesday after she attempted to board a flight to Baltimore in the United States. She allegedly told the police that she was travelling abroad to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday. She was detained at the Duhaney Park Police Station in St Andrew until she appeared in court today.

Defence attorney Jacqueline Samuels-Brown, argued that a magistrate had ruled that her client be given back her travel documents and labelled the police’s action as a breach of her clients rights.

“A monstrous wrong and great injustice has been done to my client,” Samuels-Brown, said during an emotional presentation. “Today is a tragic day in the history of justice in our jurisprudence.”

According to Samuels-Brown her client had successfully applied to the court for her travel documents to be returned indefinitely on October 23, 2001 and since that time Fullerton has travelled overseas at least 10 times. She said her client had voluntarily given her travel documents to the police when she was first arrested in 1999.

Samuels-Brown produced documents and court records to prove her point.

Senior prosecutor Paula Llewelyn had earlier implored the court to hold Fullerton in custody because she was a flight risk who had applied for a new passport and visa after she handed her expired passport to the court’s office.

“No report was made by Fullerton that she had a new passport. Having been convicted of a serious crime where the presumption of innocence had been thrown out neither Miss Fullerton nor her attorney had indicated that she would be travelling the next day,” Llewelyn told the court.