KINGSTON, Jamaica — A banking executive and her domestic helper were today both found not guilty of forgery charges in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court.

Charges were brought after the estranged husband of the banker made a report to the Fraud Squad that his signature was forged on a health insurance policy for their child.

A report was also made that the helper had colluded with the bank executive through her handling of the actual document.

During the trial, however, lawyers for the bank executive, Peter Champagnie KC, and Samoi Campbell, suggested to the husband under cross-examination that he was motivated by spite and malice.

He admitted that there was an ongoing custody battle between himself and their client in the Family Court.

In finding both the banking executive and the helper not guilty, the court noted that there would have been no motive for the husband’s signature to be forged as the health policy was fully financed by the banking executive.

The helper, who was also represented by Champagnie and Campbell, had asserted that she had witnessed the husband signing the policy documents before delivering them to the banking executive.

The name of the banking executive is being withheld owing to the fact that a child of the marriage was at the centre of the complaint with the insurance policy.