A 16-year-old youth is behind bars after assaulting three teenagers in the latest violence at Dunfermline bus station, branded a “no-go area for decent people” by a sheriff.
The Dunfermline youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was already banned from the town centre following an earlier assault, also at the bus station.
He was granted bail after that incident but was made subject to a curfew at a residential home. He was also ordered to stay out of Dunfermline town centre and not to consume alcohol.
However, he breached all three conditions after leaving the care home at night and not going back.
He was then involved in assaulting three youths at the bus station when apparently under the influence of alcohol.
He appeared from custody at Dunfermline Sheriff Court and admitted breaching the curfew conditions by not being within the care home at 1.15am on June 27.
He also admitted that on July 24 at Dunfermline bus station in Queen Anne Street he assaulted a youth by punching him on the head to his injury.
He admitted assaulting another youth by striking him with a chair and repeatedly punching him on the head.
He admitted assaulting a third youth by striking him with a chair and attempting to punch him, to his injury.
He further admitted breaching the bail conditions not to consume alcohol and not to enter Dunfermline town centre.
The previous assault took place at the bus station on June 23.
The youth admitted that while acting with juveniles he punched a male on the head, causing him to fall to the ground, kicked and punched him on the head and body, causing him to roll under a safety barrier and fall on to the roadway and into the path of car, to his injury.
He also admitted that on the same day he assaulted a female at Canon Lynch Court by slapping her on the face.
Sheriff MacNair said he was considering imposing an anti-social behaviour order on the youth.
The youth was sent to the young offenders’ institution at Polmont for six months for his latest offences.
Sentence was deferred on the previous assault until November 8.
