Teen accused of 10 assaults in six months

A TEENAGER has appeared in court facing 10 charges of assault.

The alleged offences include assaulting a police officer, hitting a 15-year-old youth on the head with cups to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement and assaulting a young woman to the danger of her life.

The 16-year-old, of the Hilltown area in Dundee, who can’t be named due to his age, appeared on 11 charges in total, dating from October 21 last year to April, at various locations in Dundee.

The teenager is accused of four assaults — severely injuring the 15-year-old, spitting on a police sergeant and assaulting two females by repeatedly kicking one of them on the body, causing her to fall to the floor and repeatedly kicking her on the head to her injury and to the danger of her life, on October 21 at a flat on Provost Road and at police headquarters. The teenager is also accused of hitting another male on the head with a bottle and headbutting another woman on the same date.

He is further accused of, between April 20 and 21, at two addresses in Dundee, assaulting six other people.

Prosecutors allege that between April 20 and 21, at Pitkerro Road, he behaved in a threatening or abusive manner likely to cause fear or alarm, repeatedly shouted, punched and struck his head off a shop shutter and challenged others.

He is further accused of committing eight of the 11 offences while he had been freed on bail.

Solicitor Douglas McConnell made no plea on his client’s behalf and the teenager was remanded in custody. His case was fully committed for trial.