Teenagers sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court after attack in Whitstable
by Jamie
Bullen
Two Faversham teenagers will serve time in a young offenders
institution after a 17-year-old student was brutally assaulted.
Lee Clifford, 19, of St Paul’s Road, Boughton-Under-Blean, and a
17-year-old girl, who cannot be named, were arrested in April after
the attack in Church Street, Whitstable.
They were arrested and charged with assault occasioning actual
bodily harm alongside 19-year-old Ryan Wraight of Whitstable.
The 17-year-old suffered swelling, bruising to his
ears, cuts and sore ribs in the attack on a playing field.
The trio initially denied assault but later changed
their pleas to guilty.
Clifford will serve 15 months detention while the girl will
serve nine months. Wraight was given a nine-month referral
order.
They were sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court on March 5. All
three were ordered to pay the victim £20 compensation each.
13/03/13
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