Trial date set for fraud hearing

Four people, including two from South Holland, are to face a six-week trial for their parts in an alleged long-running fraud.

Catherine McGreggor (58), and Andrew Rendell-Read, (also 58), both of Broadgate, Weston Hills, appeared at Lincoln Crown Court this week.
Also in the dock was Kristina Cady (32), of Keats Avenue, Grantham, and Catherine Pierson (33), of Farnborough, Hampshire.
McGreggor and Rendell-Read entered not guilty pleas to two charges of fraud.
They also denied a third charge of possessing articles for use in fraud, namely forged invoices, between February 10, 2016 and August 11, 2018.
Pierson and McGreggor also pleaded not guilty to a fourth charge of entering into or being concerned in a money laundering arrangement which saw them receive ‘criminal property’ namely payments from VBC Instrument Engineering, which were wage payments between November 20 2015 and March 31, 2018.
McGreggor also denied a fifth similar money laundering charge relating to VBC Instrument Engineering between November 20, 2015 and October 24, 2016.
Cady is accused of being part of the fraud for 11 months in 2015 and 2016 but was excused from entering a plea to the allegations she faces.
Judge Catarina Sjolin Knight adjourned the case for a trial beginning at Lincoln Crown Court on January 6, 2025, and the trial is expected to last six weeks.
All four were granted unconditional bail.