P.E.I. minister found guilty of fraud in Ontario

A Presbyterian minister from Prince Edward Island has been found guilty of fraud in Ontario.

Seventy-year-old Harold Alan Stewart was convicted by a jury in Superior Court in Oshawa on Thursday of two counts of fraud over $5,000 and one count of laundering proceeds of crime.

The charges involved an 89-year-old woman who lost $160,000.

Stewart was first charged in April 2016.

At the time, he was a Presbyterian minister with the Kensington-New London pastoral charge on P.E.I. However, his appointment there ended in October 2016, which the church said was unrelated to the criminal charges.

Stewart will be sentenced on Jan.25.

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With files from Sally Pitt