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hat must be dubbed the strangest and disheartening assault we’ve heard of for a while, a disabled boy was attacked at Lauriston Castle by a group of yobbish youths with a live carp. The sickening attack took place in the grounds of the popular city attraction in Cramond near Edinburgh in broad daylight.
The youths are said to have caught a carp from one of the decorative ponds within the gardens of the castle and attacked the young boy and his carers. Thankfully nobody was injured. The attackers are still on the run but one of the groundskeepers has spoken about how the “sickening” attack is just an example of how things have started to go down-hill in the last year or so in the Japanese gardens.
Groundsman Chris Murray, aged 58, said how the gardens of the castle have become a bit of a ‘hotspot for teenage drinking’ which had in turn led to an increase in vandalism and general loutish behaviour. How would you like to be taking a leisurely stroll through the grounds of this beautiful castle to be savagely attacked by a group of youths with a live fish?!
Murray also said how a number of youths from the surrounding areas “have got wind of Lauriston Castle as a place to hang out, drink, smoke cannabis and trash the place.”
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but we thought this was such a crazy bit of news, it required mentioning!
