Sheriff brands teenager who headbutted Lothian bus "a complete radge"

A drunken teenager, who caused mayhem in a city centre street in the early hours of the morning, has been branded "a complete radge" by a Sheriff.

Nineteen-year old Peter Macdonald of Boswall Avenue, Edinburgh, pled guilty before Sheriff Gordon Liddle at the city's Sheriff Court today to committing a breach of the peace in Gorgie Road on May 13 this year, breaking two windows of the Stratford pub, smashing the windscreen of a car and head-butting a bus.

Macdonald's rampage began at 6.15am in the morning. Residents went to their windows on hearing shouting and swearing and saw the teenager arguing with another person in the middle of the road.

Macdonald then ran in front of a car being driven by a woman, forcing her to stop. He jumped onto the bonnet and began punching the windscreen.

Then he clambered onto the car roof and stamped on the windscreen until it smashed. The woman, now terrified, drove off.

Two minutes later, Macdonald ran in front of a No 3 Lothian bus, forcing it to stop and then head-butted the windscreen.

He followed this up by throwing road signs and traffic cones around the roadway and then went to the pub and broke two windows by elbowing and punching them.

The police had been contacted and took Macdonald to Wester Hailes police station, but he was unable to give them any information because he was so drunk.

Defence agent, Andrew Houston, told Sheriff Liddle that his client had told him: "I worked it out myself. If I don't drink, I don't get into trouble."

Referring to Macdonald as "a complete radge", Sheriff Liddle deferred sentence to obtain background reports. "I will have to try and find out how the public can be protected" he said.