Jury members in a $300,000 theft trial began hearing evidence yesterday on a second alleged victim.

The Reverend Jaymo Durham, 52, and Keiva Maronie Durham, 44, appeared at Supreme Court charged with stealing credit balances from four women, and also face allegations that they made and used false statements.

The couple, who are representing themselves, have denied the thefts which are claimed to have taken place over a seven-year period.

Mr and Mrs Durham, a lawyer and former attorney respectively, are charged with stealing the money from four women: Doreen Stevens and Nancy Locke, as well as Muriel and Loretta Smith.

The jury has heard extensive evidence from forensic accountant Todd Boyd on Ms Stevens’s affairs and yesterday the attention was focused on Ms Locke.

Mr Boyd said: “So the scope period for this patient [Ms Locke] was from January 1, 2018, or a few days after Ms Durham became receiver, to July 31, 2019. This case was one year and seven months.

“The total assets I identified that were owned by Ms Locke, that would include bank accounts, investments and property.

“That value was $1,111,103.52. By 2019 the net assets were $479,251.98.

“So the receiver spent out of Ms Locke’s account a total of $631,956.54. That was spent over a year and seven months so I traced the use of the funds of Ms Locke’s account to Amicus bank accounts.

“I traced them to where they were and identified if they were used for Ms Locke’s benefit. What I found was about one third, $217,675.94 and I didn’t identify them being used for the benefit of Ms Locke, or rather it was used for other dispersals which appeared to benefit the Durhams, or matters relating to the Durhams.”

The trial continues before Puisne Judge Juan Wolffe.

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