School assault girl in the dock

A teenager who pushed a 12-year-old girl against a stationary bus had sentenced deferred for six months to be of good behaviour.

The 16-year-old girl, who was 15 at the time and cannot be named, appeared in the dock before Sheriff Gregor Murray at Forfar Sheriff Court yesterday.

She admitted the assault which happened outside the recently-demolished Forfar Academy on October 20 last year.

The court heard the teenager, who was not a pupil, had gone with her mum to the school to pick up her cousin.

The cousin had allegedly been assaulted by a classmate and the accused took matters into her own hands when the alleged perpetrator was pointed out to her, pushing her against a waiting bus before a member of the public intervened.

She then shouted an obscenity and ran off, leaving the younger child with a lump on her head, a sore finger and a sore head.

Solicitor Brian Bell said his client was 15 and a child herself at the time.

He said she had just left school and had been “extremely silly” and urged the sheriff for an absolute discharge, explaining that his client was now at college and hoped to go to university.

Sheriff Murray deferred sentence until April 5 and said if she continued doing well at college and stayed out of trouble he would consider an absolute discharge.