iStockA teenager who choked a PE teacher unconscious after disturbing a classroom has been ordered to do unpaid work.
Aaron Strachan, 18, turned on the teacher at a residential unit in Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire, on June 22 2022.
Strachan, now of Edinburgh, grasped the teacher from behind and grabbed him by the neck for five to six seconds.
Other members of staff had to intervene to separate the pair.
Strachan pled guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to assaulting the man to his severe injury and danger of life.
He also admitted a later assault on another man at the unit to his injury.
Sheriff Gerard Bonnar ordered Strachan to do 150 hours of unpaid work and put him under supervision for two years.
The court heard that the PE teacher was asked to take Strachan back to a room at the unit after the initial disruption.
The teacher heard an alarm sound and he headed to a football pitch on the unit where he waited at a wall.
Strachan walked by the teacher in the meantime before he turned back the way.
Prosecutor Jenny Reid said: “Strachan placed his arms around [the teacher’s] neck and squeezed it which lasted five to six seconds.
“This was with such force that [the teacher] was lifted off his feet and left unconscious.”
Staff intervened to get Strachan to let go of the teacher who was later taken to hospital.
Fortunately, the man was left with a bruised back.
The hearing was told that Strachan was being restrained by members of staff at the unit on September 30 2022.
During the struggle, Strachan hit the second man to his left eye and bit him to the tricep which pierced his skin.
The man was treated with a dressing to his tricep and he also received a tetanus jag.
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