Web Issue 2363 September 27 2005   
 
Two injured and five arrested as 200 people crash party
WILLIAM TINNING September 27 2005
POLICE have confirmed that two young men needed hospital treatment and five others were arrested after trouble broke out a party held at a schoolboy's £600,000 home.
It was reported that about 40 police officers in 16 police cars and several ambulances were called after "a large scale disturbance" broke out among more than 200 gatecrashers who turned up at the party last Saturday evening at the house in Bearsden, near Glasgow.
It is understood three police cars were vandalised and one had its windscreen smashed.
It was reported that Martin Hewitt, 16, the son of Gordon Hewitt, the former BBC Scotland football presenter, had been expecting 50 friends to turn up at the party.
Friends were asked to pay £2 each in case of damage.
But teenagers from as far afield as East Kilbride in Lanarkshire and Helensburgh, in Argyll and Clyde, turned up after someone advertised the party on the internet.
The teenager's parents employed five security guards from a private firm and stayed in a hotel for the night.
Although the gatecrashers did not gain entry to the house, trouble broke out outside among some 200 teenagers who turned up.
The teenager's mother, Carol Hewitt, a lecturer at Strathclyde University, said the riot had been very frightening for her son although she added it had not been his fault.
She added: "The whole thing has upset me and his father. I'm so sorry the police were called to the house. It's very embarrassing."
Mr Hewitt, who hosted BBC Scotland's Sportscene before becoming a business expert and consultant, said that the actions of police had been "appropriate".
   
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