LINDEN Smith, charged with loitering, was yesterday fined $10,000 when he appeared before Magistrate Priya Beharry.

Smith (no address given) pleaded guilty to the offence which said, on Monday last, he was found in the Parliament Building compound and could not give a satisfactory account of himself.

Smith said he had taken refuge there after four men attacked him and tried to kill him.

But Police Inspector Denise Griffith, prosecuting, said the defendant jumped the fence. She said things in the compound went missing on various occasions in the past.

As an alternative to the fine, a two week sentence was imposed.