Gatecrashers caused £20,500 of damage to Perthshire schoolgirl’s home – flooding bathroom and causing ceiling to collapse – while her parents were out
The house was so trashed that the family were forced to move out while extensive repairs and a massive clean-up operation were carried out
A GANG of gatecrashers caused £20,500 worth of damage by trashing the home of a 14-year-old girl while her parents were out.
Among the various wreckage they flooded a bathroom - causing a ceiling to collapse in the family house.
The property was so badly wrecked that the family were forced to move out while extensive repairs and a massive clean-up operation were carried out.
A court heard how the gang - aged between 15 and 20 - caused chaos after turning up uninvited and rampaging through the family home in Luncarty, Perthshire.
One of the yobs deliberately flooded an upstairs bathroom and caused the kitchen ceiling to collapse in a single incident.
It cost more than £3,000 to fix.
The girl told Perth Sheriff Court that Connor Goodfellow, now 18, pulled a knife on her when she tried to throw him and his friends out of her home.
She said: "He had a knife. It was hanging out of his waist.
"It was from the kitchen. I could see the handle and a bit of the blade.
"When I asked everyone to leave the majority did, but him and Stephen Donavan wouldn't. I told them to leave and kept repeating it, and he said if I asked him to leave one more time I was going to get it - then he got the knife out.
The girl, who is now 16 and can't be named for legal reasons, added: "He was laughing sarcastically."
She had been out with pals and had invited them back to her home while her parents were out.
The six accused had arrived and caused chaos.
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Goodfellow, from Cowdenbeath, changed his plea to admit maliciously flooding the bathroom, breaking taps, and causing damage to the kitchen ceiling.
Co-accused Jordan McLean, 18, from Perth, changed his plea to admit damaging the banister and causing over £600 damage during the wrecking spree in July 2016.
Donavan, 23, Dean Christie, 19, Ben Whyte, 18, and a 17-year-old youth, all from Perthshire, had the charge against them dropped as a result of the plea bargain.
But as they sat in the court waiting for Goodfellow and McLean the quartet were given a dire warning by Sheriff Lindsay Foulis.
He said: "The total damage caused in this incident was in excess of £20,500.
"I have little doubt at the end of the day that these two are effectively the fall guys.
"This was a deplorable escapade. It is over two years ago and it is not surprising that the girl whose parents' house you trashed can't remember a great deal.
"As a result you are effectively taking responsibility for what she remembers you doing, and the others walk free. I have little doubt that those who were previously sitting beside you in the dock were responsible for what occurred.
"I don't want the others to think this was a big jape and a joke.
"Frankly it's a disgrace. I want to make that plain to you and your former co-accused."
Fiscal depute Michael Sweeney gave the court a joint minute in which it was agreed that the insurance company had paid out £20,500 to repair the damage.
The court heard how the gang smashed mirrors, flooded floors, hurled flour around floors and furnishings.
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They also kicked in a shed, threw food and drinks around the whole house, kicked holes in the walls, ripped a shower curtain, broke furniture with a golf club, slashed walls and doors with a knife, damaged a garden bench, a record deck and a freezer.
Goodfellow and McLean had sentence deferred for the preparation of social work reports.
The girl's mum said the full cost of the damage had amounted to £22,000 but she declined to comment further.
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