A 16-year-old who admitted spitting blood and saliva at a paramedic has been sentenced to a community payback order.
Jack Bruce had earlier admitted assaulting the paramedic who had tried to treat him after the teen drank so much he injured his head.
Bruce, of Balmoral Road, Blairgowrie, had been at an under-18s disco at the Corrina Hotel in Perth, but had drunk so much alcohol he had fallen and struck his head outside the venue.
An ambulance was despatched and a paramedic tried to put a neck brace on him.
Depute fiscal Carol Whyte told Perth Sheriff Court: ”The paramedics found the accused intoxicated in the street. One of the men tried to put the accused on his back when he spat at the emergency worker, striking him on the chest and face with blood and saliva from the spittle.”
The court heard the paramedic did not require ant treatment but washed himself and changed his uniform.
Bruce admitted that on January 28 at Atholl Street he assaulted a paramedic from the Scottish Ambulance Service by spitting on him.
Sentencing Bruce on Wednesday, Sheriff Lindsay Foulis told him: ”You got yourself in a condition after consuming alcohol and this paramedic was trying to his duty when you spat on him. Not a smart young man.”
Bruce was given a community payback order where he has to complete 90 hours’ unpaid work within three months and with a supervision of 12 months.