A birthday treat turned into a nightmare for a young music fan at T in the Park at the weekend.
Callum Brash (16), from Emmock Woods, was punched and kicked by a group of strangers on Sunday night.
Callum’s sister Leigh Caird (21) also suffered a broken nose when a man launched an attack on them and their mother, Amanda Brash (45).
”We were just walking through the crowd by the main stage,” Leigh said. ”People were chucking beer tins around, and I saw something absolutely flying across and hitting Callum and I ducked.
”When I stood up again a full-grown man smacked me right in the face. He looked like he was out of his head on drugs because he was just going around hitting people.
”My nose was completely burst, so me and my mum went to the first aid tent and Callum went off to find his friends.
”Later, we got a text from him saying he was at the first aid tent and I can’t even describe what he was like. He had gone back past the same bit and the same guy had gone for him again.
”The guy hit him and he flew up in the air and fell down into the mud. He tried to get up, but someone smacked him in the nose.
”He tried to cover his mouth and then someone kicked him in the mouth. There were four or five of them who were absolutely battering him.”
After escaping the mob, Callum was taken to the first aid tent and then the T in the Park hospital site, where it was discovered he had a broken nose, a burst lip and a badly swollen ear.
”The sad thing is he was having the best weekend of his life before that,” said Leigh. ”After this we’re never, ever going back to T in the Park.”
On Wednesday, we told how another Dundee teenager, 16-year-old Morgan Cullen, needed stitches after she was struck in the head by a flying bottle.
The 16-year-old was led from the main stage crowd covered in blood.
A festival spokesman said crowd safety is a priority.