An 81-year-old veteran attorney who admitted stealing more than £347 000 ($855 000) from a client is proposing to transfer a former law office building as restitution, as the court weighs sentencing.

During his trial earlier this year, after giving his defence from the dock, Hilary Jeffrey Nelson, of Bagatelle Terrace, St James, confessed to stealing from Errol Hewitt between November 13, 2018 and March 4, 2019. He was remanded to Dodds Prison pending sentencing.

Making sentencing submissions during Nelson’s reappearance in the No. 5 Supreme Court, his attorney Daquane Nedd said: “I offer to the court with the leave of my client that we are currently inquiring purchases for assets that would exceed the amount claimed, or in the alternative, could also be granted leave that the asset itself could be transferred to the virtual complainant for his own use as restitution as the most recent valuation gives the property the value of $929 000.”