A teenager was found guilty of throwing a bottle at Police officers and violently resisting arrest in a mini-riot last year.

Magistrate Edward King bound over 17-year-old Charles Maybury, of Simmons Lane, Sandys Parish, for one year.

But Mr. King said: "I don't accept the defendant as truthful.'' Earlier in the trial, the court heard Police were called to the scene of a mini-riot at the Hamilton bus terminal around 11 p.m. on August 27 last year.

A Police officer said he saw Maybury standing at the front of a crowd of 200 young people.

The officer also said he clearly saw Maybury raise his hand and throw a bottle.

And he said he could easily identify Maybury because he was the only person wearing a pale shirt. The officer approached Maybury and told him he was under arrest, but Maybury pulled away and tried to lose himself in the crowd.

Several officers were needed to restrain Maybury and place him into a Police car. But according to the teenager, he had simply arrived on the scene of the disturbance and was about to leave when he was approached by a Policeman.

He said he told the officer he was not responsible for the thrown bottle and the officer left him. But then more officers returned and grabbed him and struck him on the head with a flashlight.

Maybury claimed he was never told he was under arrest.

Defence lawyer Lawrence Scott also challenged Police accounts and claimed that in the chaos no-one could have seen one person raise his hand. However, Mr.

King called the testimony of a defence witness "riddled with inconsistencies'' which at times supported the prosecution's case.

"She gave the impression of acting in collusion with someone who she claimed she did not know,'' said Mr. King.

And he pointed out Police witnesses were never asked by the defence if they had struck Maybury with a flashlight.

He said Maybury's only defence was that he had never been placed under arrest.