Two teenagers who attacked a boy and then dragged him onto a railway line have walked free after being admonished by a judge.
Jordan Duncan and Stephen Fairservice left the 17 year-old with a broken jaw following the incident on May 4 2018. The first offenders - both 19 - returned to the dock on Friday at the High Court in Glasgow.
They earlier each pled guilty to assaulting the boy to his severe injury, disfigurement and to the danger of his life at Lanark railway station in Lanarkshire.But, judge Lord Beckett decided to admonish the duo citing a number of factors including a "high level of provocation" after the 17 year-old had initially been armed with a sword injuring one of them.
Trainee chef Duncan and Fairservice - both 15 at the time - had been with the boy that night. After a row, the then 17 year-old walked off, but later confronted the pair in the car park of a Morrison's supermarket next to the train station.
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