A FOURTH teenager has been sentenced by a judge over an attack on a boy in Bournemouth’s Lower Gardens.

Jake Pidgley, 19 and of Edward Road, Christchurch, pleaded guilty to affray in relation to an incident on the night of December 18, 2020.

Pidgley appeared in the dock at Bournemouth Crown Court on Wednesday, March 23, for sentencing.

Judge Robert Pawson handed the defendant an 18-month community order.

This included a requirement to carry out 20 days of rehabilitation activity, 80 hours of unpaid work and follow a three-month electronically monitored curfew.

Pidgley was part of the large group that set on a 17-year-old boy. The victim was forced to the ground and repeatedly hit before police arrived on the scene.

As reported, three other defendants, all aged 18, were handed suspended sentences by Judge Pawson. This was after two of them pleaded guilty to affray and the other admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

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