Metro reports that two co-workers convicted of assaulting and harassing an apprentice have been ordered to pay the victim £1,750 compensation and sentenced to a total of 250 hours’ unpaid community work. The two co-workers, Addison and Rose, were found not guilty of religiously aggravated assault after allegedly tying the victim to a cross. However, Addison was found guilty of assaulting the apprentice, i.e. giving him a wedgie until he bled, while Rose was convicted of harassing the youngster by covering him in foul graffiti with cross symbols, rude words and phallus-shaped outlines, which took days to remove. Addison was sentenced to 140 hours of unpaid community work and ordered to pay £1,000 compensation to the victim and Rose was sentenced to 150 hours of unpaid community work and ordered to pay £750 compensation. Each man was ordered to pay £500 court costs.

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