Scots sheriff brands race attack teen “an arsehole”

By Michael MacLeod and Rory Reynolds

A SHERIFF branded a racist thug as “an arsehole” after he punched an Iranian student in the face.

Victim Yasin Hajizdeh, 23, was travelling on an Edinburgh bus when he heard passengers behind him calling him a “Paki”.

On turning around he was thumped in the face by Murdo Manson, 16, and had to be taken to hospital in an ambulance.

Afterwards, Manson admitted to police he had been “acting like an arsehole on the bus”.

And yesterday Sheriff Deirdre MacNeill QC fined him £200, slamming the assault as “despicable”.