This is the moment a disabled Raith Rovers fan was ambushed by a wild mob in a vicious attack that shocked Scottish football.
Kieren Ross, 18, was attacked by a gang of thugs as he waited for a bus home from a game at rivals Dunfermline Athletic last January.
Ex-soldier Mackenzie King, 21, and 18-year-old Callum Beautyman were convicted at Dunfermline Sheriff Court yesterday, Wednesday, January 15.
Both were slapped with football banning orders but were spared jail due to their age.
Callum Beautyman.
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Mackenzie King.
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King, of Oakley – who was medically discharged from the Army – was given 240 hours of unpaid work as part of a Community Payback Order.
Beautyman, of Kelty, was handed an eight-month Restriction of Liberty Order, which means he will be electronically tagged to enforce a night-time curfew.
The sicking footage shows Kieren being kicked and punched and then trying to find his smashed hearing aids that had been knocked out.
The video starts with him lying on the concrete, curled up in a ball, as the yobs punch and kick at him.
Loud thuds from the blows can be heard as the mob scream profanities at Kieren.
At least four others are seen booting Kieren as he curls up to protect himself.
And vile slurs towards the victim can be heard including “you f***ing p***” and “you f***ing g***”.
One of the gang shouts “leave him, leave him” as Keiren begins to get up off the floor.
The young fan was attacked by a group of thugs
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The teen can be seen getting back to his feet, scrambling to pick up his hearing aid as the yobs continue to circle him.
But another then takes a final kick to his back as he tries to escape, dazed.
The video ends as Kieren scarpers away from the scene and one of the thug aims one kick in his direction.
The video sickened the whole game with both clubs condemning the violence.
Rovers goalkeeper Kevin Dabrowski said: “After meeting Kieren I was even more gutted and devastated how that even could happen to him because he’s such a loveable guy.”
King’s solicitor, Russell McPhate, said he had made “full and frank admissions to the police” and “wrote a letter of apology to the boy”.
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