Jail warning to schoolboy thug

13-year-old kicked and urinated on victim

A SCHOOLBOY was kicked in the head and spat at during a vicious attack from a 13-year-old boy.

Oldham Youth Court heard on Friday how the teenager had carried out the brutal beating on the boy after he broke a skateboard during an after-school quarrel.

Prosecutor Janet Berry told the court that the boy from Chadderton had called for his friends at around 6.15pm on Wednesday January 19, before heading to fields at Albion Street.

They came across a skateboard while on the fields but it was then snapped, something for which the boys blamed the victim.

The victim, a teen himself, alleged that he had then been tripped up by one of the boys before the defendant spat at his body and in his face.

The prosecutor then said that the defendant, who appeared in court with his mum, had urinated on his victim before kicking him five or six times in the back of the head. After going home the injured boy was taken to the hospital by his parents, where he was said to be suffering grazing, a large bump of the left eye, a bruised right eye and a bump on the back of the head.

Defence solicitor Sonia O’Brian said it had been a “monumental fall out”.

She described the incident as “the most serious attack that could have been carried out on a young boy”.

She said that his parents were appalled at the allegations but that he was said to be a very bright young boy at school. According to Miss O’Brian the event would cast a shadow on his future academic career, but that his parents were disciplining him for the matter at home.

The 13-year-old attacker admitted kicking and spitting at the victim, but denied spitting at his face and urinating on him.

He said that he had thrown a rancid container of water during the fight.

He admitted assault causing actual bodily harm.

Magistrate Mr Alan Moss said to the boy: “The only thing keeping you out of prison is the fact you have pleaded guilty. I considered a prison option.”

He issued the boy with a 12-month referral order, the maximum time length the magistrate said he was able to hand down.

He was ordered to pay £200 compensation and £85 in costs.

He warned that the next step would be prison if any of the conditions were broken.