THREE teenagers have been slammed by a judge for a “pathetic” attack that was “cowardly in the extreme”.

Ruben Francisco Santos, Delilah Bunny Waters and Allanah Adenrele Charles were before Bournemouth Crown Court for their part in the large group that set on a boy at night in Bournemouth’s Lower Gardens.

The 17-year-old victim was forced to the ground and repeatedly kicked and stamped on before police arrived on the scene.

Judge Robert Pawson spared the three 18-year-old defendants immediate terms of imprisonment but issued a strong warning to them after seeing CCTV of the incident, which took place in December 2020.

Referencing the group’s violence upon the single victim, Judge Pawson said: “He is a fellow human being and it was excruciatingly cowardly to watch. Pathetic.”

At the sentencing hearing on February 3, the court was shown CCTV footage which captured the full incident.

It started on one of the footpaths through the Lower Gardens before spilling over to the nearby grass shortly before 8pm on December 18, 2020.

Judge Pawson said Santos was involved “from an early stage” and “set the trend” for what followed.

Waters kicked and stamped on the victim while he was on the ground, with the judge telling her that her behaviour was “almost indescribable”, highlighting that one stamp to the head could kill someone.

The judge said Charles’ behaviour was also “appalling”, but said that mercifully the complainant only suffered “nasty abrasions to the head”.

Santos, of Bournemouth, pleaded guilty to affray and was sentenced to six months imprisonment, suspended for 18 months, with an order to pay £1,000 compensation.

Waters, of Bournemouth, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and was sentenced to eight months imprisonment, suspended for 18 months.

Charles pleaded guilty to affray in relation to the Lower Gardens incident and also admitted affray and theft of a man’s wallet in relation to an incident on a train in February last year.

Kiah Orme, 21, and Kasie Travers-Newman, 18, also appeared in court in relation to the train matter having both admitted affray.

The three defendants were on the South Western Railway service and became involved in an interaction with a man.

The court heard despite telling him to leave them alone, he would not do so and started the physical altercation.

The group subsequently dished out a sustained period of violence, although to varying degrees.

Charles was sentenced to six months imprisonment, suspended for 18 months, for the Lower Gardens offence and no separate penalty for the train matters.

Orme, of Poole, was handed a 12-month community order and Travers-Newman, of Poole, received an 18-month community order.

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