District councillor who assaulted a 14-year-old boy and stamped on his bicycle will not be sanctioned by East Lindsey District Council

Councillor Phillip Smith, 51, of Queen Street, who admitted assault by beating and criminal damage, was said to have been on Queen Street at 11.20am on November 4 when he saw two boys cycling down the street the wrong way.

Fiona McLellan, prosecuting, said Smith called out to them but they continued and the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, called out that they needed to go that way to get home, but Smith grabbed him by the arm and pulled him off his bicycle causing him to fall to the ground. She said Smith then stamped on the wheel of the bicycle, damaging it. She said he told police he admitted he had felt intimated by the boys' actions.

Smith, ward member for Holton le Clay & North Thoresby, who was not represented in court, told the magistrates that he was blind in one eye and had a very narrow field of vision and depth perception and had felt very “confused and traumatised” by the boys on their bicycles.

He said he had wanted to make them aware he was there and had called out but they seemed to speed up and come quite close to him.

“At the end of the day this was just kids being kids,” he told the magistrates. “But that was not how I felt at the time.”

Smith, who described himself in court as a part time university teacher, was fined a total of £272, as well as £100 compensation for the assault and damage caused and £108 in costs.

An East Lindsey District Council spokesman said: "The disqualification criteria that apply to Councillors that are sentenced through the criminal justice system is defined in legislation. This particular case has not resulted in a disqualification and as such there is no further action to be taken by the Council."