Athaliah Reynolds, Staff Reporter

A Kingston College (KC) student is now home nursing wounds after he was allegedly attacked and beaten unconscious with a steel pipe on the school compound by one of his schoolmates.

The 10th-grade student's father told The Gleaner on Friday that his son has been unable to attend classes for the past week, forcing him to miss several internal exams.

He claimed that, about 11 a.m. on Valentine's Day, he got word that his son had been injured and was unconscious at the North Street, Kingston, school.

The father said reports he has received suggest that his son was in the process of answering his cellphone when another student, also in grade 10, sneaked up from behind and grabbed the mobile.

"He realised the boy was about to make a call on the phone, so he ran after him and eventually caught up with him at the far end of the school," the distraught dad said.

Brutal attack

The phone was then passed to a number of other students until his son eventually got it back, he said.

"He (the son) was about to walk away when he (one of the other boys) took some stick or the other and hit him across the back and the elbow. He fell and got up and attempted to walk away again."

The parent told The Gleaner that his son said the last thing he could remember was the blunt force of a piece of steel across his shoulder.

"He then hit his head on some rocks or something and was knocked unconscious."

The father said his son was taken to the Kingston Public Hospital where he underwent treatment, including receiving six stitches to a wound on his jaw.