Sick thugs threw a sheet over me and taped me to my mobility scooter

SICK thugs taped a disabled grandad to his mobility scooter in a “cruel” prank that one later blamed on TV show Jackass.

John Tweed, 58, feared he was going to be set on fire when Calvin Gallon, 23, and Callum Swaffield, 18, pounced on him outside his front door.

They threw sheets over him then bound him in place with thick wrapping tape.

John, who has no strength in his hands and is disabled from the waist down, said: “At first I thought it was a joke, but I quickly realised it was serious. I thought I was going to be seriously hurt and badly burned.

“There was no one about to help me. The pair of them were out of control.”

Gallon — John’s next door neighbour in Macduff, Aberdeenshire — first threw bleach and rice on the scooter with his pal in July.

Hours later, John was trying to head out when the pair jumped on him and covered him with the sheets.

Neighbours saw the laughing yobs at the scooter and called cops — unaware that John was under the bedding.

Gallon and Swaffield, of Alvah, Banff, admitted behaving in a threatening and abusive manner but claimed the attack was a joke.

Gallon’s solicitor Iain Jane said his client meant no harm and was inspired by something he saw on prank show Jackass.

At Aberdeen Sheriff Court, law chief Morag McLaughlin branded the stunt “cruel”.

She jailed Gallon for 18 months. Swaffield’s sentence was deferred.