Man ordered to compensate cyclist

His admission that he damaged another man’s bicycle during an argument over payment for work, resulted in a Brittons Hill resident being ordered to pay $600 compensation by Independence Day.

Magistrate Manila Renee ordered Shane Rene Bartlett, 46, to pay the amount after he pleaded guilty to damaging Samuel Trotman’s bicycle on May 26. Failure to pay will result in one month’s imprisonment.

But the Villa Road, Brittons Hill resident denied using the threatening words ‘I gine kill you’ towards Trotman with the intent of causing him to believe that immediate unlawful violence would be used against him.