Man fined after assaulting kid outside Scots school while handing out leaflets
dailyrecord.co.ukA man who assaulted a teenage boy during an incident outside a secondary school has been fined £290.Darren Hurrel, 21, turned up outside Larkhall leisure centre in Lanarkshire to hand out leaflets and was surrounded by a group of pupils.
Footage, which went viral online, showed pupils from nearby Larkhall Academy launching plastic bottles and cans towards Hurrel as anger grew.He lashed out at a 14-year-old boy who had sprayed liquid on him and knocked him to the ground before leaving the scene.
A depute head teacher at the school had to usher Hurrel inside for his own safety while police were phoned.Hurrel, of Rigside, Lanarkshire, appeared at Hamilton Sheriff Court and admitted the assault in October last year.
Sheriff Michael Higgins fined the first offender and warned him he now had a criminal record.Allegations unemployed Hurrel had punched and repeatedly kicked the schoolboy on his body were deleted from the charge by prosecutors.
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