A TEENAGER was in court for breaching bail conditions – and claimed a gang dragged him to a house and attacked him.

Christopher Evans, 19, appeared before Kirklees magistrates from custody yesterday.

He is awaiting sentencing at Leeds Crown Court after having sex with a 15-year-old girl.

A judge had bailed him on conditions that included residence, an electronically monitored curfew and no unsupervised contact with a child under 16.

But the teen was arrested in Mirfield after breaching his curfew condition on August 14.

The court was told that at just after midnight police were called to the Kashmir Restaurant on Huddersfield Road.

Marina Hunter-Grey, prosecuting, said: “Police attended following reports of an assault. The defendant said that he had been attacked and he was arrested for being in breach of curfew.”

Magistrates were told that Evans had breached the court order two days previously for being out of the house outside his curfew hours.

The teenager, of Chidswell Gardens in Dewsbury, was described as being of “extremely low” intelligence.

A psychologist assessed his IQ as being in the bottom 0.3% of his peers, describing his mental age as being between eight-and-a-half and nine-and-a-half years old.

Evan’s solicitor Paul Fitzpatrick said that on the day of the bail breach his client had left his cousin’s home in Lockwood.

Instead of catching a bus the teenager began walking home because his grandma had told him to walk whenever possible.

Mr Fitzpatrick said: “He met somebody who he regarded as a friend with a group of others.

“He was taken to a house where he was held for a period, he says at least one-and-a-half hours.

“They were subjecting him to assaults and frog-marched him to a cash machine because he had his debit card on him”.

He added that police hoped to catch those responsible for the assault.

Magistrates agreed to re-bail Evans on the same conditions as previously.

He will be sentenced at Leeds Crown Court for the original offence on August 22.