Charity worker charged with 15 counts of forgery and false applications

Man accused of submitting fraudulent grant applications to official bodies in the North

The Guildhall, where Derry City Council meets. Eddie Kerr is accused of submitting applications to the council with a forged signatures.
The Guildhall, where Derry City Council meets. Eddie Kerr is accused of submitting applications to the council with a forged signatures.

A charity worker has gone on trial in Derry accused of 15 forgery and fraud offences.

The charges relate to the alleged submission of duplicate and fraudulent grant aid applications to the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister and to Derry City Council between September 2009 and March 2011.

Eddie Kerr (61) a former co-ordinator of SEEDS, set up to help ethnic minorities to integrate, denies committing the offences.

The defendant, from Ashfield Terrace, Derry, is charged with forging a man’s signature on grant application forms, submitting false application forms and with securing funding for his £30,000 salary as head of the charity when the money had already been secured.