A Fife teenager has admitted carrying out a life-endangering assault at Glenrothes Bus Station.
Current HMP Polmont inmate Callum Robinson appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court via a video-link from custody.
He pled guilty to repeatedly stamping on a 17-year-old boy’s head as part of a group assault.
The melee was captured on camera by a concerned passenger in the top deck of a bus parked at the station.
Robinson later told police: “He started on me so I smashed him.”
The teenager, who was jailed earlier this year, will be sentenced for the attack on September 13.
Foetal position
Fiscal depute Lee-Anne Barclay told the court Robinson’s victim arrived at Glenrothes bus station on April 27 last year, alighting a bus near the taxi rank.
He was described as acting aggressively and shouting at people and a group seized him.
He was brought to the ground and attacked, curling up into the foetal position.
The assault lasted a short time, during which Robinson kicked and stamped on his head.
The teenager refused medical treatment but his face was covered in blood from a cut on the bridge of his nose.
When police traced Robinson, he told them: “He started on me so I smashed him.”
Robinson, 18, of Auchtermuchty, pled guilty to assault to injury and danger of his life, while acting with others.
His defence counsel opted to reserve mitigation until a sentencing date set for next month.
Jailed earlier this year
In April this year, Robinson was jailed for repeatedly causing trouble when he was staying at a homeless hostel in Dunfermline between May and August 2022.
This included, after turning up drunk at 1.25am holding a bottle of Buckfast, threatening to smash the security guard’s car with it and threatening to stab him, his wife and his children.
He had previously been given community disposals, including a curfew, for a string of offences but did not comply.
On that occasion, defence solicitor Shona Westwood said her client’s period in detention had been a “wake-up call”.
But Sheriff Susan Duff said: “He’s not been complying with anything” and imposed six months of detention.
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