BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - NEWRISH NITAL, the once popular Mathematics teacher, chemist and host of the ZIZ television programme ‘Ask Nital’, was on Tuesday (Mar. 12) released on bail pending his appeal which is expected to be heard in June 2013.
Appearing in Chambers Tuesday morning, Nital was granted bail in the amount of EC$40 000 with two sureties and walked out of the Sir Lee Llewellyn Moore Legal and Judicial Complex a somewhat free man.
He was convicted of three counts of fraud by a 12-member jury on June 15, 2011 for the April 1, 2 and 4, 2008 incidents and sentenced to three years imprisonment on July 21.
He is said to have presented several United States Postal Service International Postal Money Orders to a cashier at the Basseterre Post Office with intent to defraud.
He obtained EC$3 710, EC$1 855 and EC$3 710 on April 1, 2 and 4, respectively, from the cashier by presenting the money orders that later turned out to be fraudulent.
The three money orders totalled EC$9 275.
Nital was also said to have had five US$700 money orders and had taken them to the postal office on the said dates.
Had he not appealed his case and been bailed, Nital would have completed his three year sentence at Her Majesty's Prison in July of this year.
SKNVibes understands that if he loses his appeal he would have to return to prison and serve out his sentence.
