Today the Record again reports on shocking violence by a group of teenagers on another young person. In sickening scenes, a teenage boy is circled and attacked at a snack van by youths who then use baseball bats to savagely beat him.
In recent months, we have highlighted other incidents which appear to be part of a sickening trend of attacks filmed and posted to social media platforms such as TikTok, Whatsapp and Snapchat. Some of the assaults have been frenzied like the one that left 12-year-old Abbie Jarvis lying unconscious and covered in blood after being lured to a skatepark in Glasgow.
Child victims have felt unable to return to school due to fear of beatings. It is clear violence like this has to stop before someone is killed.
