A SEVENTEEN-year-old labourer was yesterday fined $15,000 by Magistrate Ann McLennan on a threatening behaviour charge.Rupert Hayman of Lot 64 Friendship, East Bank Demerara, pleaded guilty to the charge that said on Friday, November 12 at Front Road, West Ruimveldt, Georgetown, he behaved threateningly towards Phillip Waldron.

Police Prosecutor Dinero Jones told the court that the virtual complainant and the defendant are known to each other but are not friends. He added that on the day in question, the victim went to a shop with one Joshua, who called Waldron an informer and dealt him a cuff to his mouth.

The prosecutor said that Hayman then ran the victim with a cutlass and subsequently, the matter was reported to the police. Joshua was also charged but was not present in court.

Hayman however told the court that Waldron ran him with an ice pick and to defend himself he ran him with the cutlass.
He was fined $15,000, failure to pay which will result in him having to serve three weeks in prison. He was also bonded to keep the peace for 12 months.