Service order for private pupils

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Five private school pupils involved in a "terrifying incident" at a 15th birthday party have been sentenced.

Anthony Carson, Matthew Fife, Kieran Holohan, all 18, and 17-year-old Jonathan Daly were each sentenced to 200 hours community service.

The teenagers - who attended Hutcheson's Grammar School - tried to gatecrash the party in Glasgow last March and attacked two men and a boy.

Sentence on a fifth man, Finn Wilkie, 18, was deferred for 12 months.

The incident happened when parents arrived to pick up their children who had been at a birthday party in Maxwell Park, Glasgow.

Anthony Carson and Jonathan Daly, from Newton Mearns, Matthew Fife, from Burnside, and Kieran Holohan, from Pollokshields, were students at the £8,000-a-year Hutchesons' Grammar School in Glasgow.

Bottle attack

Police were called after they lashed out at two parents and a guest at the party.

They also started kicking and banging the door and challenged people to a fight, leaving them "traumatised".

The teenagers each pleaded guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to assault and causing a breach of the peace.

Their fellow Hutchesons' pupil, Finn Wilkie, 18, from Dumbreck, admitted causing a breach of the peace.

All five were excluded from the school and have since received hate mail.

At Glasgow Sheriff Courts, Sherriff Craig Henry said what they all did constituted a "truly terrifying experience" for the victims.

The court heard that Carson hit a 14-year-old boy over the head with a bottle, leaving him with a three-centimetre cut.

The complainers still feel the effects of the incident and were certainly at the time traumatised Sherriff Craig Henry

David Hall, defending, said: "He regrets the shame that he brought on his family."

Fife, who is now at university, attacked Brian Morris, 46, outside the party, repeatedly punching and kicking him on his head and body.

Patrick Fordyce, defending, said the attack had been "mindless and idiotic".

Holohan and Daly attacked the party host, Ronnie Campbell, 43.

Holohan's solicitor Lisa Butler said it was an isolated incident.

The court heard Daly was brandishing a chain during the attack.

He is now studying business at Glasgow Caledonian University.

James Clarke, defending, said: "This is someone who is capable of learning from a grave error."

Wilkie also helped to terrify people inside the party, the court heard.

Mhairi Richards QC said that he and his family had been "deeply affected" by what had happened and that he was extremely regretful of the incident.

Sheriff Henry was told that all of the five teenagers had a low risk of re-offending and had not been in trouble since the night of the party.

Sheriff Henry said: "The complainers still feel the effects of the incident and were certainly at the time traumatised."