A 13-year-old girl has become one of Scotland's youngest criminals after being convicted of battering another teenager.
The girl was just 12 when she lured the 17-year-old girl to a flat in Craigneuk, Lanarkshire.
They were drinking alcohol but violence erupted after the older girl answered a phone call from police.
She had been reported missing by a Renfrewshire secure unit but spoke to officers on her phone.
Her attacker and a 15-year-old accomplice both repeatedly punched the girl and locked her in a bedroom after she attempted to flee the scene.
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A court heard she suffered a broken pelvis and wrist after falling from a first-floor window of the flat.
The accused, now aged 13 and 16, denied any wrongdoing and went on trial at Hamilton Sheriff Court but a jury convicted them of the assault in April last year.
Giving evidence from behind a screen, the victim, now aged 18, told depute fiscal Alice Carey she was attacked before she fell from the window.
She said: "I was in the toilet and the older girl came running in and grabbed my hair and I was also getting kicked in the stomach by the younger girl. I then got shoved up to the window.
"My full head was out of the window and I kept on shutting my eyes because I was scared and I didn't know what was going to happen.
"I was crying and asking for them to stop and that I was sorry because I thought it would make them stop."
She told the court she spent three weeks in hospital and had an operation on her pelvis after plunging from the bathroom window.
The jury deleted claims both girls had pushed or forced their victim out of the window causing her severe injury and to the danger of her life from the charge.
During the five-day trial the 13-year-old also pled guilty to assaulting three passengers on a train between Motherwell and Wishaw.
Both girls admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner on the same train.
A court source said: "The 13-year-old has been the youngest accused person facing trial in Scotland since she was charged last year
"The offences she was originally facing were extremely serious and potentially life-threatening for her victim.
"It's still a very serious situation she finds herself in and the evidence in the case has been pretty shocking."
Sheriff Martin Jones QC deferred sentence on both for reports until next month and continued bail.
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