A YOUTH was involved in two assaults on boys in Alva.

The 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared at Alloa Sheriff Court.

He had completed a structured deferred sentence.

Defence solicitor Robert Smith said: “He seems to have got himself back on the straight and narrow and is not associating with the same people as he was then.”

Sheriff Neil Bowie said: “These were deeply unpleasant offences.”

As the youth had stayed out of further trouble and completed his structured deferred sentence, the sheriff admonished him.

However, he also warned the offender that he now had a conviction and further offending will not be dealt with as leniently.

The assaults took place in Alva on June 19 last year.

The youth admitted that in Brook Street, he assaulted a boy by striking him to the head to his injury.

He then assaulted another boy, by striking him to the head, pursuing him on to the road, dragging him to the ground and repeatedly striking him to the head and body, to his injury.