Teenage thugs in Ayr school assault

Jan 23 2009

A PAIR of teen thugs battered a schoolboy during his lunch break.

Alan Ramage and Chey Manson (both 17) sauntered into the grounds of Belmont Academy and assaulted the pupil in a totally unprovoked attack.

When they appeared at Ayr Sheriff Court this week, Ramage and Manson pleaded guilty to assaulting Cameron Morrison by repeatedly punching him on the head on December 3 last year.

Cameron sustained a cut to his right cheek and bruising to his face.

Defence lawyer Tony Currie told Sheriff Colin Miller that both the boys are first offenders.

Mr Currie went on to explain that there was about a year between Ramage and his victim and that there was bad blood between them over a girl Ramage had been involved with.

Ramage and Manson, both from Ayr, claimed that they were cutting through the school with another boy as a shortcut to his house and had no intention of approaching Cameron.

But it was the first time Ramage had seen unsuspecting Cameron since their troubles and he saw red.

The pair were quickly apprehended by the campus cop at Belmont Academy.

Sheriff Miller fined both teenagers £200 and ordered them each to pay £100 compensation to their victim.

Sentencing them, he said: “It is only because of your lack of record and your early guilty plea that fines can be applied in this case.”