£4000 Compensation for Off-Duty Policeman Injured in Brutal Attack
In a public liability claim, two men have been ordered to pay £2000 each in compensation after being convicted of attacking an off-duty police officer.
When the officer challenged a youth who had kicked the car he was driving in, he was set upon by a gang of other young men and repeatedly punched and kicked.
He was left bleeding on the ground and later had to undergo an operation for a facial fracture in the area of his cheek and nose. He was off work for two and a half months.
As well as both attackers being ordered to pay £2000 in personal injury compensation to the victim at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, they were also told they must undertake 250 hours of community service.
Sheriff Scott also stated clearly that the £2000 compensation claim had to come from their own pockets and asked the solicitors to make this clear to both their parents.
Sheriff James Scott told the pair: “It is a disgraceful, outrageous, that a member of the public, minding his own business, should be subject to hooliganism and then attacked. He was off work for two and a half months and was a man who served the community as a police officer.”
Later in the same court, a 17 year-old man pleaded guilty to maliciously kicking the car, and was fined £300.
Updated on 08/02/2010