iStockA boy who assaulted a disabled 19-year-old has avoided a custodial sentence.
The 16-year-old boy attacked the teenager in Glasgow’s Eglinton Toll on August 29 2024.
The boy pushed the teenager and kicked him to the body during the assault at a bus stop.
He pled guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to assaulting the victim to his injury.
On Friday, Sheriff Anna Reid ordered the boy to be of good behaviour for six months when a further hearing will take place.
The court heard that the victim suffers from a developmental language disorder.
He went to the bus stop to get to college that day when he came across the boy.
The boy asked him if he was “Ryan” and he replied: “No, I’m not Ryan.”
The boy did not accept the response and pushed the teenager on the body.
Prosecutor Jeremy O’Neill said: “[The victim] fell to the ground and kicked him to the lower body.
“The victim asked the boy to desist from the assault.”
The victim’s mother saw the assault and shouted that her son was being attacked.
Another witness who saw the attack banged on a window which brought the assault to an end.
However, the boy brought out his mobile phone and filmed the victim and shouted at him.
The victim ran home and was noted to have slight bruising to his torso and a cut to his elbow as well as a scratch to his right eye.
The boy was later traced and arrested.
Claire Donoghue, defending, told the court that her client was unaware of the victim’s disability.
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