Traumatised teen girl had her head stamped on repeatedly while waiting on a bus in Lanarkshire village

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The anxious mum of a traumatised teenager knocked unconscious in a sickening attack in broad daylight, claims she could have been killed.Liz Flanagan’s daughter, S6 pupil Holly, 17, was attacked by a group of up to a dozen youths and had her nose broken after they brutally stamped on her head, face and body.The 40-year-old doesn’t believe bullying and gang attacks will stop unless the authorities are given the powers to deal more robustly with offenders under the age of 18.Holly, from Coltness, had been going to visit a friend when she was approached by the group of yobs.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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She was with her pal and they went up to Newmains to collect her other pal. Holly doesn’t normally go out the door nmuch, but as school had finished up for the holidays that day she said she was going out with her pals and I said that was fine.“Holly doesn’t know any of them.

She’s really shy and wouldn’t say boo to a ghost, and even if she had she doesn’t deserve that.“One girl came behind her asking what Holly had said about her boyfriend, and that was it, several of them were stamping on her head.