INVERNESS SHERIFF COURT: Teenager thrown out by mother ends up in trouble with the law in Laurel Avenue after damaging a van then assaulting a man in Tomnahurich Street
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A TEENAGER who was thrown out by his mother and then his father moved into homeless accommodation in Inverness.
But 19-year-old Jack Grieve, of Union Street, Inverness got into trouble with the police in April last year.
Inverness Sheriff Court was told that Grieve was in Laurel Avenue, Inverness at 4.30am on April 19 when he maliciously damaged the wing mirror of a van.
But the incident was captured on
CCTV and he was identified from the footage.
However, Grieve went on to assault a pedestrian an hour later in Tomnahurich Street, Inverness.
Fiscal depute Susan Love said: “Grieve asked the man for a lighter but he said he didn’t smoke and walked on.
“However, he felt a kick on his back and then he was punched in the face, pushed to the ground and punched again, causing his lip to swell and bleed.”
Grieve admitted assault to injury and vandalism.
His defence solicitor Neil Wilson told Sheriff Ian Cruickshank: “He had been kicked out by his mother at the age of 15 and moved in with his father.
“He was then kicked out by his father and was in homeless accommodation in Inverness.
“He was not in a happy place and was aimless. He now seems to have turned his life around and is on a course in London which he hopes will lead to employment.
“He has also built bridges with his father and is back with him in Portknockie.”
Grieve was sentenced to 60 hours of unpaid work and told to pay £100 of compensation to each of his victims.
