A man kicked burning logs into the air, injuring a 15-year-old boy, as he tried to stamp out a youngsters’ campfire, a court heard.
Robert Lafferty, 49, roared up to a circle of tents on a trail motorcycle after hearing they had been pitched in woods on the south side of Loch Tay, Stirling Sheriff Court was told.
He told the campers, a group of teenagers who were celebrating one of their number’s 16th birthday, that they should not be there, and gave them two hours to go.
Then he set about trying to extinguish their campfire.
As he did so, a log flew into the air and hit the 15-year-old boy in the face and on the leg.
The impact of the lighted log caused a burn to his left calf and a one-centimetre cut to the chin.
Lafferty, of Lyon Cottages, Killin, Perthshire, pleaded guilty to a charge that on September 18 2015 he had culpably and recklessly and with utter disregard for the consequences repeatedly kicked and stamped on the campfire causing a piece of wood, then alight, to strike the 15-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, on the head and body, to the danger of all the campers and in particular to the danger of the boy who was injured. Sheriff Gillian Wade QC fined Lafferty £300.