Four teenagers have appeared in court accused of assaulting police officers who had been called to disperse a group of youngsters gathering at a Scots railway station.
The four are accused of dragging one British Transport Police officer under the steps of stairwell at Stirling Railway Station and hitting him on the head with a glass bottle, after first repeatedly punching and kicking him to the head and body and pulling him to the ground.
The officer, PC Alan Kavanagh, is said to have been injured as a result of the alleged incident on Friday March, 12.
Another officer is also alleged to have been injured as a result of being struck on a head with a bottle after being repeatedly punched and kicked to the head and body and placed in a headlock, with the teenagers also allegedly wrapping their arms round his legs in an attempt to take him to the ground before the alleged blow with the bottle.
The officer is then alleged to have been pushed to his knees by the group and punched on the head.
A third officer is said to have been struggled with by the four, which made him fall to the ground, where he was then kicked and struck on the head and body.
The four youths, all males, one aged 18, two aged 17, and a 16-year-old, are said to have been acting along with "others" in the alleged incident.
The four, from Stirling, appeared on petition at Falkirk Sheriff Court on Monday afternoon, facing three charges of police assault and one of resisting police officers in the execution of their duties.
The 18-year-old accused, Dylan Crossley, is additionally accused of having a bottle at the railway station as an offensive weapon.
Crossley, from Atholl Place, Raploch, is the only one of the accused who can be named.
The under-18s cannot be identified for legal reasons.
None of them made any plea at a series of private hearings before Sheriff Richard McFarlane, who committed them for further examination and granted bail.
They will appear in court again at a date to be fixed.
British Transport Police said at the weekend that they had been called to a group of young people gathering outside the station on Friday night.
The force said the officers approached the group and asked them to leave just before 10.30pm.
Several members of the group then allegedly attacked them.
