THE MAN charged with posting a Facebook comment about the police was fined when he appeared in the District “C” St Matthias Magistrates’ Court today.
Nicholas Antone Benjamin, a 30-year-old customer service agent of Rock Hall, St Philip, pleaded guilty to using his cell phone to send a message that was menacing in character, intending to cause or was reckless as to whether he caused annoyance, inconvenience, distress or anxiety to the members of the Royal Barbados Police Force, on July 6.
He posted “the only people I wish to see killed is every single police officer. Every f****** one.”
Chief Magistrate Christopher Birch fined him $3 500 to be paid in three months or six months in prison.
