i hope the passer by gave one or two of them a good hiding, little punks.

"Pc Andrew Sharkey said: "Just because the offenders in the situation were very young does not mean it was any less frightening for the victim to be set upon. Fortunately, a very public-spirited person was on hand to make sure they did not get away with it."


Not sufficiently public spirited to turn these thugs over to the law.

Young, or not, you commit "adult" crime you do "adult" time.

10 years will ensure these yobs won't do it again - and 10 years will ensure other would be thugs that it's not a good idea to 'do' crime.

Someone was saying on here about kids these days. I agree. Generally they give me the creeps. Yes, some are great, perfectly normal and amiable. But some make me shudder. Of course, they get it from their parents, and know at the end of the day they can't be touched for anything. My parents and teachers knew all about this happening if things were allowed to go too far, and that's why they instilled some discipline and respect. Seemingly alien and un-trendy to today's up-bringers. Admittedly it's not the kids' fault in the first place, but just visualise their next generation. The writing's been up on the wall for ages now, and been ignored. Nightmares to come.

One of Bolton's newest schools? It is Hayward re branded to make it sound more appealing more like. Hope they catch the little thugs. I am not saying that all the pupils there are bad because they are not. One of my children went to this school when it was Hayward and sorry no name change can make it a better school in my view.

Ten to One the good samaritan ends up in court on an assault charge.

St Trinnians in Bolton? All those inclined that way, will be using their bus passes to get over to Bolton, to line up to be robbed by these chavettes; innit?

If that wou;ld have been me I would have hit them to make them stop and I would be the one being charged with assualt!

Sounds like they need to be put across a knee and given a good thrashing.

I cannot understand the desire to "jail" these little thugs. What they need is public humiliation and bollox to their "human rights" - they didnt give a fig for the human rights of their victim.

Put the lads in pink overalls and have them scrub the shopping areas with a toothbrush - anyone caught not scrubbing hard enough or dilligently enough should them be stocked and buckets of rotting fruit and veg can be hurled at them by previous victims.

The girls should be clothed in very unflattering garments, their hair cut very short and given a similar difficult and embarrasing task such as cleaning out our public toilets.

Then make them parade around the town centre, chained together, for a day wearing notices suggesting that this is what will happen to others who are caught terrorising the neighbourhood.

I stongly suggest that this will be one "badge of honour" that they will not want to wear twice!

And just in case they re-offend - boot camp!

And support the public who intervene - had it been me, one would have been detained, by "reasonable force", long enough for a Police Officer to take in charge.

what a wonderful world we live in.

Kids! You can't whack 'em.

What a great shame.