Toronto Police Charged Her With Witchcraft. Then She Invented a Brother. (Vishwantee Persaud, 2009)
Vishwantee Persaud: in December 2009 Toronto police charged her under Canada's old Criminal Code section for pretending to practise witchcraft, after a Toronto lawyer said she had told him she carried the spirit of his dead sister. He had given her office space, a salary and, by police estimate, more than 100,000 dollars. In 2010 the witchcraft charge was withdrawn in a plea deal; she pleaded guilty to four counts of fraud and was sentenced to time served. On October 8, 2026, the Ontario Court o
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