A se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer who struck a man’s van with a ba­ton be­cause he re­fused to obey his or­ders to move his ve­hi­cle has been or­dered to pay the dri­ver $600 in com­pen­sa­tion.

Leon Singh, 33, was al­so slapped with $2,350 in fines on five charges aris­ing out of the in­ci­dent.

Singh plead­ed guilty to ma­li­cious dam­age, es­cap­ing law­ful cus­tody, re­sist­ing ar­rest, dis­or­der­ly be­hav­iour and us­ing in­sult­ing lan­guage.

He claimed he asked the man who was parked up on the com­pound of a busi­ness place eat­ing dou­bles to move his ve­hi­cle three times, but he re­fused.

San Fer­nan­do First Court pros­e­cu­tor Cley­on Seedan said around 11 pm on April 27, Clifton Mc­Clean parked his black pick­up on the com­pound of a busi­ness place at In­dus­try Lane, Mara­bel­la. Singh ap­proached and asked Mc­Clean to move his ve­hi­cle.

Mc­Clean told him he will move as soon as he com­plet­ed what he was do­ing.

Seedan said Singh, who was armed with a ba­ton, struck the right div­er’s door, dam­ag­ing the door post.

PC Rishi Per­sad and oth­er of­fi­cers ar­rived on the scene and while Per­sad was speak­ing to him he be­gan shout­ing and point­ing, de­scrib­ing the po­lice as be­ing stu­pid and nasty. Singh pulled away his hand vi­o­lent­ly when the of­fi­cer at­tempt­ed to ar­rest him and ran off. The po­lice even­tu­al­ly held him at Manohar Street in Mara­bel­la.

Singh, who works at a se­cu­ri­ty firm in San Fer­nan­do, has sev­er­al con­vic­tions in which he served jail time, in­clud­ing ma­li­cious dam­age, as­sault with in­tent to rob and rob­bery with vi­o­lence.

He was fined $1,000 or three months in jail for es­cap­ing cus­tody; $1,500 or four months for ma­li­cious dam­age; $200 each for dis­or­der­ly be­hav­iour and in­sult­ing lan­guage and $450 for re­sist­ing. If he fails to pay the fines in the lat­ter three charges he will serve 60 days in jail.

He was or­dered to pay the com­pen­sa­tion forth­with and al­lowed 28 days to pay the fines.