CHRIS Nurse (no address given) was fined $15,000 with the alternative of 10 days imprisonment, yesterday, on conviction for disorderly behaviour.
He pleaded guilty, before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton, to behaving disorderly at a public place on June 5. But he pleaded not guilty to assaulting two police officers acting in the execution of their duties and being in possession of an offensive weapon that same day.
Police Corporal Simone Payne, prosecuting, said it was around 11:45hrs that the two ranks on duty observed the defendant acting in a suspicious manner, stopped and searched him and found a knife on his person.
The prosecutor said the policemen were about to arrest the defendant, because he could not give a reasonable explanation as to why he was carrying the weapon but he began to behave in a disorderly manner and assaulted them.
The defendant said he was riding his bicycle when a policeman gun butted him and, after he fell, the officer attempted to hit him with the gun, again but he pushed him away.
Nurse said another officer arrived on the scene and kicked him about the body and he behaved in a disorderly manner so that people around can see what the policeman was doing to him.
Nurse was put on $150,000 bail, pending his return to court on June 18.