Teenager assaulted because he was seen riding on the pavement

Don't get confused between English and Scottish guidance. I am not aware of any guidance that applies in Scotland.

I had assumed that it was so obvious that it wasn't necessary.

Google also reckons there is a main cycling route (recreational) which commences at Keptie Pond.  I think it's one of those typical park paths where common sense usage is supposed to apply.

(Or the 72 year old saw a cyclist run a red light once, and had been at the special brew...).

Velo-drone wrote:

Quick look at Google shows that Keptie pond has a path around it. If this path was the location the law against cycling on pavements does not apply, as it is not alongside a road. Even if it was a pavement on the road alongside Keptie Pond, young people are specifically included in the original guidance to the legislation that penalties should not be applied to those who cycle on the pavement for their own safety from traffic, and who do so considerately. Obviously we don't know what manner the lad was cycling in, but regardless it won't be an excuse for 40 yr old to be assaulting a 14 y.o.

One quick look at common decency and "not being a psycho" shows that grown men who assault teenagers for riding bikes are w@nkers

Captain Badger wrote:

One quick look at common decency and "not being a psycho" shows that grown men who assault teenagers for riding bikes are w@nkers

To be fair ... that applies to grown men who assault teenagers for any reason whatsoever. 

Agree about the picture being slack - it also misrepresents the situation.  My guess is that the path around Keptie Pond is mixed use, so the lad was unlikely to have been breaking any laws, not that that would be an excuse to assault him anyway. Can anyone from Arbroath confirm this? 

A 72-year-old man has been charged after a Scots schoolboy was allegedly attacked in Angus.

Police confirmed the pensioner has now been charged in connection with an alleged assault on a 14-year-old boy i n Keptie Road, Arbroath, on Monday evening.

Officers launched a major probe earlier in the week after the schoolboy was allegedly threatened, pulled off his bike and attacked by a man.

A 72-year-old has now been charged and he will be reported to the Procurator Fiscal.

A Police Scotland statement said: "A 72 year old man has been charged in connection with an alleged assault on a 14 year old boy in Keptie Road, Arbroath, on 20th September.

"He will be reported to the Procurator Fiscal.

"Thank you to everyone who responded to or shared our appeal in connection with this incident earlier this week."

Not exactly an incentive to respect one's elders

Ah here comes Nigel again, this time without any evidence looking for excuses for a grown adult who attacked a child and has been charged for it, and throwing in an utterly irrelevant political dig as well. Utterly pathetic even by your abysmal standards.

I have confidence that the Scottish legal system will come to the right conclusion with the facts.

Nigel is rarely interested in those. Just made up a excuse without any.

Whilst you, of course, never, EVER throw in utterly irrelevant political digs in your comments!

Hey Pot, meet Kettle.

However, for someone who always moans when political points are made on this website, shouldn't YOU be having ago against Nige for doing that. Or is it just certain political points you moan about being brought up?

Flintshire Boy wrote:

Whilst you, of course, never, EVER throw in utterly irrelevant political digs in your comments!

Hey Pot, meet Kettle.

I am most certainly not averse to introducing political points into comments, given that many stories to do with cycling have a political dimension and many others have a political dimension introduced by idiots like Nigel, which I don't believe should go unchallenged. However, to try to support his entirely unevidenced and unjustified claim that there must be "more to" a story about a grown man attacking a child by saying that Nicola Sturgeon has "form on favouring villains over the law abiding" because she mistakenly tried out an electric scooter on a public footpath is truly pathetic.

Thanks for this.  And don't worry, no-one in their right mind would think you were claiming to have written the article - it was pretty clear you were being helpful in pasting the report for others. Let's hope the perpetrator of the attack gets an appropriate sentence. 

The slack reporting, with a distorted picture, starts from the off, with the reporter claiming insight into the man's motivation, thereby colouring the entire article. Dreadful reporting:
"Teenager assaulted because he was seen riding on the pavement."
"A teenager was assaulted by a man who was infuriated that he was cycling on the pavement".