Teenage knife thug faces jail for attack outside Glasgow school
The 17-year old boy stabbed a 16-year old boy in January last year - the attack was filmed on a mobile phone
Last updated 18th Jan 2019
A teenager who stabbed another boy who needed emergency surgery and has been left scarred, is facing time behind bars. The 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, attacked the 16-year-old outside a school in the north of Glasgow last January.
Two of his 17-year-old friends joined him in assaulting the other teen, who was left with two stab wounds.
One punched and kicked him while the other brandished a Buckfast bottle during the sustained attack, which was all captured on a mobile phone and later discovered by police.
Glasgow Sheriff Court heard from the boy, who turned up to “watch a fight” armed with a knife.
He admitted the attack while his two friends denied their involvement, with one claiming self-defence because the 16-year-old victim kicked another of his friends.
But, a jury convicted the two boys of acting with their friend and carrying out the assault to the victim’s severe injury and permanent disfigurement.
A fourth boy also pleaded guilty to engaging in a stand up fight with the victim’s brother.
The 16-year-old told the court he has been left with a scar at one injury and redness at the other.
He needed emergency surgery, a total of 26 stitches, internally and externally and was kept in hospital for six days.
The jury heard he was there with his brother, who was to fight someone else, and in order to get that boy off of his brother, he kicked him on the head.
The 16-year-old was stabbed, then kicked and punched, and stabbed for a second time and screamed in pain - which was heard on the footage.
The recording, later found on a mobile phone during police enquiries, captured the entire incident and showed the 17-year-old with a knife.
Before he used the weapon someone shouted “He’s got a lock back.”
Even after the 16-year-old is seen clutching his side in pain, one of the teenagers continues the attack on him, then claimed at his trial he was defending his friend.
In evidence the 17-year-old who admitted the stabbing was reluctant to give evidence against his friends.
He did tell he court “We were going to watch a fight” although accepted he got involved.
During her speech to the jury, procurator fiscal depute Lucy Adams invited the jury to convict the two other 17-year-olds who denied their involvement including the one who claimed he acted in self-defence.
Miss Adams said: “Is it self defence, ladies and gentlemen? Or is it retribution for kicking his friend.
“He law doesn’t cover retribution.”
She asked them to where the boy who was being defended was at that time.
The prosecutor added: “How can it be acting in self-defence if the person you’re supposed to be defending isn’t even directly involved?”
Sheriff Paul Crozier deferred sentence on the teenagers until a later date and continued their bail.